Re: [Groff] indentation with macro ends

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Indeed, thank you very much.  I could fix the indentation, but I 
> found the following bug in the existing code; this should be fixed first.  
> Try the following source fragment.
> 
> #############
> 
> .de macro_with_named_end end
> .if 1 some text
> .end
> This line isn't printed.
> The previous line is missing.
> .br
> .de macro_with_standard_end
> .if 1 more text
> ..
> But this line _is_ printed,
> it is not lost.
> 
> #############
> 
> It prints:
> 
> The previous line is missing.
> But this line _is_ printed, it is not lost.
> 
> 
> So a macro with a named end will eat the line following its ending
> tag.  This bug is hidden in the same do_define_macro() function, but
> I'm still hunting.

This isn't a bug.  This is the undocumented request `.end', needed by
grohtml, together with `.begin' and `.image'.  Thanks for noticing it.
Gaius, may I ask that you add documentation for those three commands?
We've missed that.


    Werner