Re: [Groff] groff build hangs

[Peter Schaffter]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure whether other have seen this but the latest groff from
> > the cvs appears to hang whilst building the mom examples:
> 
> Indeed!  troff enters .PROCESS_SHIM and hangs in the while loop.
> 
> Peter?

The following patch fixes the problem.  Werner, can you apply this
to /mom in the repository?  Thanks.

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Index: BUGS
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/peter/CVS/mom/BUGS,v
retrieving revision 1.43
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -c -u -r1.43 -r1.44
--- BUGS        15 Mar 2006 23:32:06 -0000      1.43
+++ BUGS        27 Mar 2006 23:22:11 -0000      1.44
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@
 --Peter Schaffter
 
 ========================================================================
+Version 1.3-e
+=============
+mom failing during groff build while processing
+examples/typesetting.mom
+---Fixed---
+
+Windows user reports COLLATE fails with a bottom margin error
+(generated by mom).
+
 Version 1.3-d
 =============
 Small error in the examples of output in the "Footnotes and
Index: om.tmac
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RCS file: /home/peter/CVS/mom/om.tmac,v
retrieving revision 1.130
retrieving revision 1.131
diff -c -u -r1.130 -r1.131
--- om.tmac     15 Mar 2006 23:32:06 -0000      1.130
+++ om.tmac     27 Mar 2006 23:18:59 -0000      1.131
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 with groff; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 
-Version 1.3-e
--------------
+Version 1.3-e_1
+---------------
 Antoine de St-Exupéry asserted that elegance in engineering is
 achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is
 nothing left to take away.
@@ -2626,7 +2626,7 @@
 .    if d$DC_ADJUST \{ .ps \\*[$DC_ADJUST]p \}
 .    mk x
 .    sp \\n[#DC_LINES]v
-.    SHIM
+.    if \\n[#DOCS]=1 \{ .SHIM \}
 .    ie \\n[#DC_COLOR]=1 \{\
 .       ie !'\\$3'' \{\
 .          ie '\\$3'COND' \{ .PRINT 
\m[\\*[$DC_COLOR]]\\*[COND]\\*[$DROPCAP]\\*[CONDX]\m[] \}

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-- 
Peter Schaffter
  Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada)
  http://faustus.dyn.ca