Re: [Groff] mm header/footer bug

[Larry Kollar]

Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:

> ... in your example you haven't explicitly terminated the line
> (using .sp instead of 'sp would do this, or an explicit .br),
> so it does not get output but stays in the environment until
> new stuff is added in this environment, which happens in the
> page footer, resulting in two lines there, one from the header,
> one from the footer.  Your use of \p in the footer line also
> causes the line to be output.

It seems so obvious once someone who actually *knows*
points it out... :-) Changing 'sp to .sp and running TEST=2
gave me the same correct results as TEST=0.

However, I still think the line width should also be set
properly in the header/footer environment; it would allow
things like using PSPIC to include a logo in the header.

> But as you rightly figured out, using .tl is the easiest (and
> probably cleanest) way to achieve what you want.  (However, I
> would suggest drawing lines with \D.)

[looks up \D in groff.texinfo]
So it would look something like \D'l 0 address@hidden' then? What
advantage does this provide over the \l escape?

Thanks for the pointer!

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