[bug #58736] [me] footnote breaks two-column output

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #24, bug #58736 (project groff):


commit 0f3c777f5dbfc5dc1f4668cfd8b8fd35bb818623
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Dec 16 19:00:55 2021 +1100

    tmac/tmac.am: Mark a test as XFAIL.

    * tmac/tmac.am (tmac_XFAIL_TESTS): Mark test
      "e_footnotes-work-with-columns.sh" as expected to fail (as it does
      now, consequent to a reverted commit).

    See discussion in Savannah #58736.

commit 21e6881d585902f711464c413681c7c56ac35bd1
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Dec 16 18:54:01 2021 +1100

    Revert "[me]: Fix Savannah #58736."

    This reverts commit ab55f50af0599028bf7d3fd0fc50358471595b3c.

    It had undesired side effects.  The interactions of traps, footnotes,
    multi-column mode, and extreme page lengths are complex (and were not
    all completely settled even in 4.4BSD me, if the output of Heirloom
    Doctools troff is any indication).

    tmac/tests/e_footnotes-work-with-columns.sh fails at this commit.


[comment #10 comment #10:]
> 
> commit ab55f50af0599028bf7d3fd0fc50358471595b3c
> Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri Aug 13 09:32:31 2021 +1000
> 
>     [me]: Fix Savannah #58736.
>     
>     * tmac/e.tmac (1c): Fix problem when combining multiple columns,
>       footnotes, and return to single-column mode: do not place the
>       single-column text below the footnote.  Space to the end of the page
>       (\n[nl]), not the page "high-water mark" (\n[.h]).  Thanks to Bjarni
>       Ingi Gislason for the suggestion.
>     
>     Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58736>.
> 

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