Re: [Groff] Various Comments of the UTP Book

[Michael Hobgood]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:59:10PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Chapter 12 starts with a .page that has more than the page number on it,
> I think it should match the rest of the .pages.
> 

Indeed it should.  I flat missed this.

> If .do-page is used then the formatting of the book hangs somewhere
> around the `ig ,' in ch14.t.  A poorly placed .page perhaps?  -mtrace
> helps a bit here.
> 

I had many problems with .do-page, but nothing that hung up processing.
The problems I had mostly concerned vertical spacing being different
when .do-page was enabled, and page numbers being discarded, depending
where in the file they were.  Myself and a few others put the page
numbers exactly where they occurred, even if it were in a table etc.
These, I remember, were lost.  You will find several errors, inconsistent
numbers and locations etc. Regardless, I will try to track this down. 

> 
> The first page of the book proper, i.e. the title page, has a page
> number at the top, as does the following page.
> 

This demonstrates my ignorance of troff.  Someone care to show me how
to get it to not put page numbers on it?


> The first page of a chapter has the page number in the footer at the
> bottom and the header at the top.
> 
> The text of Fig. 4.2, p. 60, seems strangely butted up against the left
> hand edge of the box.
> 

Actually, what they are showing in this figure is raw formatted nroff.
The demonstration is to point out that nroff gave a default page offset
of 0, leaving no left margin.  Refer to page 70 in the original book.

> p. 259, the pic showing the dependencies of `Manual' has the text too
> big for the boxes.
> 

The problem is in Chapter 10, which immediately precedes this one.
I'll take bets that I never bothered to reset anything at the end
of the chapter, and those effects are carried over to subsequent 
chapters.  My apologies.  I will fix these as soon as possible.
This chapter (chapter 11) groffs okay by itself, and the text is placed
correctly.

> The heading at the bottom of p. 259 has no following text.  Should
> headings of a certain level `keep together' with their following item?
>

I'm not getting anything that resembles this.  It may be caused by other
problems.


Cordially,
Michael Hobgood