[Groff] Re: new grohtml patches

[Gaius Mulley]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> > > . The captions of figure 6-5 and figure 6-6 (and many others) are
> > >   centered by grohtml itself.  I think this shouldn't be done --
> > >   the html browser will do it by itself.  Additionally, each
> > >   centered line is envelopped by <p> ... </p> which adds ugly
> > >   vertical space.
> > 
> > yes there is quite a bit of ugly vertical space.
> > 
> > >   Maybe the line length should be set to an `infinite' value?
> > 
> > I don't think the infinite value trick will work as tabs and
> > indentation operate on percentages of the line width.
> 
> Hmm, the actual code is e.g.
> 
>   <p align=center>Figure 6-5: <b>circle fill; move; circle
>   fill 0.4; move; circle</b></p>
> 
>   <p align=center><b>fill 0.9;</b></p>
> 
> There are neither tabs nor indentation, as far as I can see.  I think
> this should be rather
> 
>   <p align=center>Figure 6-5: <b>circle fill; move; circle
>   fill 0.4; move; circle fill 0.9;</b></p>

Hi Werner,

yes this is desirable. My comment on the line length set to infinity
was a general one. But I guess we could set the line length
temporarily to infinity when we are processing a .ce request and
nofill == 0. Would there be any side effects if this were done?

Gaius