At 2025-05-12T07:33:46-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Comparing PostScript and HTML output, it looks almost as if inter-word > spacing was completely defeated, which explains the overset lines and > lack of work breaks. Apart from that admittedly major defect, things > look fine. > > Since they're short, I'm attaching both of these output files.
I forgot to do that, of course. But never mind, I have some preliminary
findings:
1. Using the "-ms" command-line option instead of ".mso s.tmac" solves
the worst problem, where word breaking is defeated.
2. groff 1.22.4 and 1.22.3 exhibit the same misbehavior.
3. ms(7) seems not to understand that the section heading ends when the
subsequent paragraph starts, but only when rendering HTML. I
surmise a bug in www.tmac, but I have a bias against that macro
file.
I'll look into (1) for long enough to create a Savannah ticket for it.
I can't offer an ETA for a fix until I understand the problem.
It's very odd to me that:
.mso s.tmac
.mso de.tmac
at the top of a document is somehow not equivalent to "-ms -mde".
I still want to know more about that core dump.
Regards,
Branden
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