On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-10-24T13:28:11-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > > It is referred to with '\*[...]' instead of '\\*[...]'. > > > > > > Found with "test-groff -ww ... doc/automake.mom". > > > > mom files should be processed with pdfmom(1), not test-groff. > > That's a more categorical statement than I was expecting. (Though you > did say only "should", not "must".)
Funny you should mention it. I had a little internal quibble with the wording myself. :) > I had thought that pdfmom was only _required_ if there were forward > references in the document. That would be the same reason that the old > DWB troff mm(1) command existed,[1] and why we have mmroff(1) in > groff.[2] There are circumstances where pdfmom is required for other than forward references. Flex-spacing, for example, piggybacks on pdfmom's dual pass command line. It's not the default, though, hence the cautionary "should". -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
