Re: [Groff] UTP Macro bugs

[Meg McRoberts]

--- Jon Snader <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'll download ch06.t and take a look.  The .SS macro should leave plenty
> of room (3n), so I'll be surprised if that's an issue.  As I said earlier,
> the X[1-4] macros don't leave as much room.  Is that where you're seeing
> the problem?

I'm seeing the problem in the .SS sections.

> I don't understand the part about .Ps.  I haven't changed those macros
> since I first added them.  Perhaps the ch06 author tweaked the markup.

I agree -- this was an odd one.  The first two occurances of .Ps in the
chapter worked fine and then they stopped doing the indent.  My guess is
that something else was resetting (or not resetting) something it should
not have been under some special circumstances that affect only this chapter.
A chapter about one of the macro sets has a huge potential for doing that!

> The page break is because I added a .ne \\n[dn] to the .SS macro.  Without
> that, boxes would sometimes gobble up the running head on the next page.
> We shouldn't be seeing what you describe though.  Again, let me take a look
> at ch06 and see what's going on.

If you want a quick check, the ch06.ps I originally printed off was 37 pages;
it is now 65.  If your build of ch06.t yields a ps/pdf of less than 40 pages,
then the problem must be in my build environment.

meg

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