The paragraph spacing bug is also visible in the
re-typeset book utp_book-1.1.pdf (page 90). The
original book does have vertical space before the
quote (page 110).
The sentence "Use the .QP macro inside a .QS/.QE
block to break up paragraphs." on this page does
IMHO has a typo--.LP or .PP should
Doug McIlroy wrote:
> The -ms macro QE typically draws a misleading diagnostic, "unbalanced QE".
> This breaks old documents that expect QP-QE (quoted paragraph) to narrow
> the text and then restore it. The groff QE does not restore.
I had been wrong here. For the simple tests I've done groff
I found several old copies of tmac.s lying around in my files,
presumably modified for various special purposes.
They all contain not only QP-QE, but also an undocumented QS,
and a never-tested flag set by QP and unset by LP and PP.
It appears that QS was expected to be used when QE is not
immediat
> Carsten Kunze wrote:
>
> Doug McIlroy wrote:
>> Bad case I: [...]
>
> It neither works in groff nor in heirloom roff as specified (in original -ms
> specification).
>
> I suggest to make .QS, .QE, .QP work as specified for traditional -ms without
> any warnings. Then there may be some re
> It neither works in groff nor in heirloom roff as specified (in
> original -ms specification). [...]
Carsten, you now have write access to the groff repository, and the
copyright papers arrived at the FSF also, so please do whatever seems
to fit :-)
Werner
Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Bad case I: [...]
It neither works in groff nor in heirloom roff as specified (in original -ms
specification).
I suggest to make .QS, .QE, .QP work as specified for traditional -ms without
any warnings. Then there may be some redundant code in .QE and .RE but this
shoul
