On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:52 +1100, Jennifer Sayers wrote: > Dear Werner, > > I seem to have found a bug in the mm macros. If you have a heading > and then a paragraph which is one short line, a following paragraph > gets run into the first one (i.e. the .P in between doesn't take effect). > > I have this bug on 1.19.3 but it doesn't appear in 1.18.1 that came > installed on my Linux system. > > I have demonstrated the bug below using nroff, but I discovered it > using troff.
This problem is caused by the check for the promise that a .P immediately following a .H will be ignored (from groff_mm.7: "An eventual paragraph, P, directly after H will be ignored, H is taking care of spacing and indentation."). Since the current vertical position on the page is the same as it was after the .H, the .P is getting ignored. I had a patch that is in 1.19.3 to make the promise above work ... but it looks like I broke this on the way! I'll try and see if I can improve on my previous patch ... you can almost certainly work around it by adding a ".br" after your short paragraph. -- Nick Stoughton Cell: 510 388 1413 USENIX Standards Liaison Fax: 510 548 5738 _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list bug-groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
