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Summary: me: behavior of .ll does not match documentation
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: barx
Submitted on: Mon 19 Nov 2018 05:25:30 PM CST
Category: Macro - others
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
doc/meref.me describes the macro .ll as "Set line length in all environments."
This is not what it does:
groff -me -a <<EOF
.ll 2i
The quick brown fox
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
.ev foo
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
.ev
jumped over a quick brown fox which...
EOF
This has been discussed a couple times over the years on the groff email list.
The last post on the topic was mine, which left unresolved questions:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2013-09/msg00025.html
No clear solution has emerged from these discussions, and I have no further
input; I'm just creating this bug report so the issue doesn't get forgotten.
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