Hi Branden! On 11/2/22 09:30, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2022-11-02T01:16:12-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:That isn't confirmed yet, but after also seeing the problem in filesystems(5), slabinfo(5), and utmp(5), that's the way my nose hairs are blowing.Guess I should break out the trimmers; disabling the abbreviation logic did not remedy the problem. Nevertheless I found it after further sniffing. I have now undergone a rite of passage that many writers of *roff macro packages experience: stumbling over the landmine of end-of-input trap page-ejection behavior.
Heh, I've been reading the patch, and it very much sounds like Chinese to me. Good that it was easy for you :)
This bug did not affect groff man(7) in 1.22.4; that isn't too much of a surprise because I rewrote continuous rendering support afterward. I _think_ the bug was latent in groff 1.22.4 mdoc(7), but I am not positive because headers and footers generally failed to appear in continuous rendering mode in that release for that package. Regardless, it's certainly present in groff Git master on Savannah now. But, not long ago I ported over groff man(7)'s continuous rendering handling to our mdoc(7), replacing the method it had been using--I don't know if I exposed the bug or merely created it. Rest assured, I have regression tests for this for both packages now. Please apply the attached patch to your groff sources. This will be in my next push.
I'll get it from git soon. I'm not in a hurry for it ;)
I have tried to explain the bug and fix clearly in comments and the ChangeLog but the problem is in one of the more damnably subtle aspects of formatter; witness the lengthy comment (that I recast), introduced by Werner way back in 2001. I welcome suggestions for clarification.
I wonder why so much duplication. The ChangeLog seems like an exact _duplicate_ of the git history.
I chopped the Linux man-pages 'Changes' file considerably by having a high level overview of the changes, and deferring to git(1) for further details.
Thank you very much for using the Linux man-pages corpus to help solidify groff man(7) for release.
Thank you very much for giving me the tools to improve the Linux man-pages :-}
Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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