Re: [Groff] Heirloom TBL problem

[Blake McBride]

I'd prefer it to be changed to work as expected rather than have to employ
secret internal steps.

Thanks.

Blake
On Jun 19, 2015 5:42 AM, "Tadziu Hoffmann" <address@hidden>
wrote:

>
> > The "expand" option works correctly (as expected) on groff,
> > but when using Heirloom _with_ MM, it doesn't fully expand.
> > I think it does without MM.
>
> In the heirloom version of mm the display is processed in
> environment 1, which still has the original line length.
> To fix your problem, you could replace
>
>   .ll 6.5i
>
> with
>
>   .ll 6.5i
>   .ev 1
>   .ll 6.5i
>   .ev
>
> However, mm already provides a mechanism to do this
> automatically, by setting the register "W" to the
> desired width *before* loading the macro package.
>
> I.e., you can either
>
>   tbl test.mm |troff -rW6.5i -mm |dpost >test.ps
>
> or, in your manuscript, do
>
>   .nr W 6.5i
>   .so /path/to/mmt
>
> and then run troff simply as
>
>   tbl test.mm |troff |dpost >test.ps
>
> (without -mm).
>
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