Bertrand Garrigues writes: > Hi Richard, > > On Thu, Feb 01 2018 at 11:25:21 PM, Serge Baumer <[email protected]> wro > te: > > Richard Ellis writes: > > >> groff version 1.22.3. > >> > >> I have a test 'mom' macro file formatted as below: > [...] > >> > >> When I render that file using this groff command line: > >> > >> groff -mom -Tps test1.mom > test1.ps > >> > >> I get an output postscript file where the first page is typeset > >> properly, but the second page has both columns of text typeset on top > >> of each other, and both columns are in the column 2 position (right > >> hand column) on the page. > >> > >> I also get the same result if I render to pdf. > > I can see the same problem on the groff installed on my Arch Linux > system and by recompiling groff 1.22.3 from the official tarball. > > > I've got all the output correct. Maybe your groff build doesn't have > > upstream patches. The 1.22.3 version is the last official release (if I > > understand correctly), and it's of 2014. Both groff and mom have > > undergone many changes since then. > > Indeed, there is no problem on the latest version from the git repo. > > I was preparing a new release now, but still have some technical > problems (In theory I have all the necessary rights but I still can't > upload packages on GNU's ftp sites). > > You can build the up-to-date version of groff with: > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/groff.git > cd groff > ./bootstrap > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure > make -j > make install > > Regards, > > Bertrand Garrigues
I don't know, what's in other distros, say, Debian, with groff and do they apply some patches from the git repo. The Linux From Scratch project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org), for example, doesn't bother with any patching as well. That's, I think, because groff is taken somewhere simply as a "manpage processor", and a bare 4 years old version is pretty enough for this. So, making a new official release would be a really great thing. Thank you. -- Best regards, Serge Baumer _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
