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" <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> 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). > > > >
