URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68124>
Summary: DS Macro difference between 1.22.4 and 1.24.0
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Thu 05 Mar 2026 05:35:40 PM UTC
Category: Macro package mm
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Thu 05 Mar 2026 05:35:40 PM UTC By: Anonymous
GROFF VERSOIN: 1.22.4 / 1.24.0
PLATFORM:
Linux roffmm 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun
5 18:30:46 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Linux ... 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun 5
18:30:46 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CONFIGURATOIN REPORT:
DEBIAN:
Package: groff
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 10557
Maintainer: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.22.4-10
Provides: groff-x11, jgroff
Depends: groff-base (= 1.22.4-10), libc6 (>= 2.35), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0),
libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxaw7 (>= 2:1.0.14), libxmu6 (>= 2:1.1.3),
libxt6
Recommends: ghostscript, imagemagick, libpaper1, netpbm, perl, psutils
Conffiles:
/etc/X11/app-defaults/GXditview ee0e9f38fdf99c32c77a89cd67b8ac03
/etc/X11/app-defaults/GXditview-color 753a00fce7fa986c812c517b8bb2680e
Description: GNU troff text-formatting system
This package contains optional components of the GNU troff text-formatting
system. The core package, groff-base, contains the traditional tools like
troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. This package contains additional devices
and drivers for output to DVI, HTML (when recommended packages are
installed - see below), PDF, HP LaserJet printers, and Canon CAPSL LBP-4
and LBP-8 printers.
.
The X75, X75-12, X100, and X100-12 devices, which allow groff output to be
conveniently viewed on an X display using the standard X11 fonts, are now
included here. They were previously in a separate package, groff-x11.
.
Besides these, the groff package contains man pages describing the language
and its macro sets, info documentation, and a number of supplementary
programs:
.
- gxditview, which is used to display the output of the X* devices, and
can also be used to view PostScript output from groff;
- grn, a preprocessor for pictures in the 'gremlin' format;
- tfmtodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tdvi';
- hpftodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tlj4';
- afmtodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tps';
- refer, which preprocesses bibliographic references for use with groff;
- indxbib, which creates inverted indices for bibliographic databases used
by 'refer';
- lkbib and lookbib, which search bibliographic databases;
- addftinfo, which adds metric information to troff font files for use
with groff;
- pfbtops, which translates a PostScript font in .pfb format to ASCII for
use with groff;
- mmroff, a simple groff preprocessor which expands references in mm;
- pic2graph, which converts PIC diagrams into cropped image files;
- eqn2graph, which converts EQN equations into cropped image files;
- pdfmom, which runs 'groff -mom' to produce PDFs.
.
All the standard macro packages are supported.
.
Some facilities only work if certain recommended packages are installed:
.
- ghostscript, netpbm, psutils: required for HTML output;
- imagemagick: required for the pic2graph and eqn2graph programs;
- libpaper1: paper size detection in dvi, lbp, lj4, and ps devices (falls
back to a4 if not installed);
- perl: required for PDF output and for the chem preprocessor.
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
ARCH:
Repository : core
Name : groff
Version : 1.24.0-1
Description : GNU troff text-formatting system
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
Licenses : GPL-3.0-or-later
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glibc libgcc libstdc++ perl
Optional Deps : netpbm: for use together with man -H command interaction in
browsers
psutils: for use together with man -H command interaction in
browsers
libxaw: for gxditview
perl-file-homedir: for use with glilypond
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 2.40 MiB
Installed Size : 9.01 MiB
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
Build Date : Sun 01 Mar 2026 12:37:01 AM MST
Validated By : SHA-256 Sum Signature
INPUT FILE:
(attached)
COMMAND LINE:
groff -mm -T pdf example.mm > x.y.z.pdf
DESCRIPTION:
I have attached 2 pdfs generated from 1.22.4 and 1.24.0. They were generated
from (effectively) the same source (just changed the version number
displayed). Both were generated using the same command.
It seems that the third argument in the .DS macro is doing something weird :/
In the older version it would just intent the right-hand side (as the man page
suggests it does) but in the newer version it tries to push the right margin
all the way left, spitting out error messages such as:
troff:example.mm:5: warning [page 1, 1.5i (diversion 'ds*div!1', 0.0i)]:
cannot adjust line; overset by 0.231514i
Where the older version has no errors and works as expected.
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File Attachments:
Name: 1.22.4.pdf Size: 6.3KiB
<https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/1.22.4.pdf?file_id=58308>
Name: example.mm Size: 105B
<https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/example.mm?file_id=58309>
Name: 1.24.0.pdf Size: 1.9KiB
<https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/1.24.0.pdf?file_id=58307>
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