URL:
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Summary: me: two-column output does not work with very long
page lengths
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: barx
Submitted on: Fri 23 Nov 2018 04:44:53 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:
I discovered this bug on groff 1.22.2, but it is also present in a groff built
from the latest source in git.
For nroff output, it is often desirable to eliminate "page" breaks for text
meant to be read in a pager such as "less." The groff info manual gives
advice on how to do this: "set the page length at the beginning of the
document to a very large value."
However, this breaks -me's two-column macros.
.pl 158
.2c
Column 1.
.bc
Column 2.
Pipe the above into "nroff -me | grep ." and the output is as expected:
Column 1. Column 2.
But change the 158 to any higher number, and the columns are no longer output
correctly:
Column 1.
Column 2.
This puts an unreasonable upper limit on the very large value one can specify
to accommodate nroff output.
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