Re: Solved Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-15 Thread dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
On 14.03.25 11:06, Robert Goulding wrote: > A display (introduced by .LD) needs a closing .DE macro. And I would also > close a heading macro with a paragraphing macro. Yes, your method may get > visually the right results, but it may be unpredictable, since some > housekeeping behind the scene

Re: More stuff solved. Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Erik, At 2025-03-14T09:00:50+, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > Ah, well, that was initially for wrapping after the .I line, then it > was Vim's autoindent. I provided the space needed after the trailing > comma, to separate words ... erroneously as you're so s

Re: Solved Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-14 Thread dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
On 14.03.25 09:33, Robert Goulding wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system > > AHA!  Squirrelled away under "4.6.5.8 Keeps, boxed keeps, and displays", > > there's a non-wrapping paragraph, i,e, .LD. That fixes the unwanted > > wrapping, and .SH overru

More stuff solved. Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-14 Thread dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
On 14.03.25 00:25, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-03-14T04:52:59+, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system > discussion wrote: > > The attached "sample.groff" does not flow together lines, following a > > .PP, expected to compile a paragraph. Yet going the whole .RP trip, > > for c

Re: Solved Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-14 Thread Robert Goulding via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > On 14.03.25 07:29, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion > wrote: > > > It is probable that a neutral terminator for .SH, .LP, and .PP scope, > could be all that is needed. Then "as presen

Solved Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-14 Thread dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
On 14.03.25 07:29, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > It is probable that a neutral terminator for .SH, .LP, and .PP scope, could > be all that is needed. Then "as presented" code or command lines will neither > be wrapped nor bolded. I'll see what I can find. AHA!  S

Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-14 Thread dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
On 14.03.25 16:29, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion > wrote: > > > It seriously looks like the most productive way forward is to go back to > > raw troff, or failing to find the secret sauce there, look for a more > > robust ut

Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-13 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: It seriously looks like the most productive way forward is to go back to raw troff, or failing to find the secret sauce there, look for a more robust utility - sufficiently documented to allow basic work. Did you

Re: Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-03-14T04:52:59+, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > The attached "sample.groff" does not flow together lines, following a > .PP, expected to compile a paragraph. Yet going the whole .RP trip, > for conformity's sake, in groff_primer.ms, *does* spuriously flow

Groff -ms utter unpredictability.

2025-03-13 Thread dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
The attached "sample.groff" does not flow together lines, following a .PP, expected to compile a paragraph. Yet going the whole .RP trip, for conformity's sake, in groff_primer.ms, *does* spuriously flow together successive \n terminated lines *without* a .PP or .LP, and that's even more useless