[bug #55081] [me] multi-column mode does not work with very long page lengths

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #24, bug #55081 (project groff):


[comment #23 comment #23:]
> I can confirm that commit fa5fa889
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=fa5fa889> solves the
problem I saw in comment #14 when the document's footnotes are removed.  So
the behavior of Bjarni's .wh-containing document is the only open question.

Hi Dave,

I would fully expect a `wh`-using document to run into problems.

As you note in comment #22, "[Bjarni's document] uses .wh to plant a trap, and
.wh is not on -me's approved list of low-level roff requests."

In fact I reckon it is one of the most dangerous ones a me(7) document author
can employ.

Unless someone comes up with additional facts bearing on the use of unusual
page lengths and multi-column mode _without_ using footnotes or custom
vertical position traps, I think this ticket can remain closed as invalid.

One could argue that me(7) should redefine `wh` and use a renamed version of
it internally, but I'll let that argument be made in a different ticket if it
is to be raised.

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