Re: Footnotes not working in -me

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2021-12-16T22:18:27-0500, Robert Goulding wrote:
> Rudimentary file and output attached, run through groff -me with latest
> git. No footnotes appear.

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the report.  This problem arose from a late-breaking change
(as they so often do), and I didn't catch it because it (1) doesn't
affect nroff mode and (2) relies upon the value of the new `$x` register
being nonzero, a condition that does not obtain with the *.me documents
we have in the tree.

It's a one-character fix--the minus one needs a "u" after it.  Here's an
inline diff.

diff --git a/tmac/e.tmac b/tmac/e.tmac
index 37e263455..4f74a1966 100644
--- a/tmac/e.tmac
+++ b/tmac/e.tmac
@@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@
 .\" pic(1) convention) by the amount in `$x` (a groff 1.23 extension).
 .ie t \
 \{\
-.ds { \v'-0.4m'\x'\\n(0x=0*-1*\\n($xu'\s-3
+.ds { \v'-0.4m'\x'\\n(0x=0*-1u*\\n($xu'\s-3
 .ds } \s+3\v'0.4m'
 .\}
 .el \

You can edit your e.tmac file in place or add this string definition to
your document as a workaround.

I'll include this fix in my next push.

Please accept my apologies for the breakage.

Regards,
Branden

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