On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 02:59:15AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > > Here is another example where, when the table doesn't fit on the page, > > it vanishes and is not carried over to the following page. > > As far as I can tell, hdtbl does not start a new page by itself > when a table does not fit, but invoking t*hm will output any > held tables. The way you have set this up to be called from > pg@top will print the table, but you have to explicitly request > a new page with .bp at the end, or provide more running text > (not inside TBL/ETB) so that ms will eventually start a new page. > The reason are bugs in the hdtbl macros as shown in the bug ticket #64772 (comment #9, 2013-11-07), named "[hdtbl] consider deprecating", in the attached file "hdtbl.tmac.diff" (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff).
Also look a bug ticket #64967 grops.1.man..."HDTBL" > However, I think that in this particular case the problem is > not having the page length correctly set. Can you try using > .pl 29.7c somewhere near the top? > > The page format does not fix the bugs in the hdtbl macros. Simpler is to change the page size on the command line by adding -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 define "paper" for the formatter, add option "-pa4" for the output device. The default paper size should be defined in "tmac/troffrc" before "papersize.tmac" is sourced, for example with . do if !d paper .do ds paper A4\" use $(PAGE) to configure
