This is a question for Deri James. Is there some reason why, in pdfmom, the system() call to groff at line 125 does not include '$preconv' in the first pass?
I've been working on flexible vertical whitespace in the mom macros, using pdfmom's PDF.EXPORT to assign first-pass strings with the correct amount of flex-space for each page. I was using pdfmom to process my test file, which needed both the -t and -k flags. At first, I couldn't get my flex spacing system to perform reliably. After a couple of days of debugging and coming up with nothing, it occured to me to process the file long-hand at the command line instead of using pdfmom, like this groff -Tpdf -dPDF.EXPORT=1 \ -mom -z -t -k test-file.mom 2>&1 \ | grep '^\. *ds' | \ groff -Tpdf -mom -t -k - test-file.mom \ > test-file.pdf That's when I discovered that pdfmom wasn't picking up the -t and -k flags on the first groff pass. Inserting $preconv into the first pass in pdfmom solved the reliability issue. I can't figure out why it isn't there already. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
