Given the source file bad.ms: ========== bad-hdtbl.ms ======================================================= .LP Groff 1.24.1 has a problem with the hdtbl macro package. .br .TBL cols=3 . TR .TD 1*1 ".TD rowspan=2" 1+2*2 .TD 1*3 . TR .TD 2*1 .TD 2*3 .ETB .br .LP Did it work? ========== End of bad-hdtbl.ms ================================================
groff 1.24.1 does not work, failing with the following error: $ groff -Tpdf -ms -mhdtbl bad-hdtbl.ms >bad-hdtbl.ms.pdf hdtbl.tmac: cannot load package; macro 'TH' is already defined s.tmac:bad-hdtbl.ms:5: error: sorry, .TR not implemented groff 1.23.0 works fine, no error and produces a working PDF file: $ /usr/local/sw/versions/groff/1.23.0/bin/groff -Tpdf -ms -mhdtbl bad-hdtbl.ms >bad-hdtbl.ms.pdf groff 1.24.1 fails trying to load -mhdtbl before -ms: $ groff -Tpdf -mhdtbl -ms bad-hdtbl.ms >bad-hdtbl.ms.pdf s.tmac:bad-hdtbl.ms:5: error: sorry, .TR not implemented hdtbl.tmac:bad-hdtbl.ms:7: Each table (.TBL) should contain at least one table row (.TR)! hdtbl.tmac:bad-hdtbl.ms:7: There is only 1 column in the 0th row but 3 are expected. groff 1.23.0 also fails trying to load -mhdtbl before -ms: $ /usr/local/sw/versions/groff/1.23.0/bin/groff -Tpdf -mhdtbl -ms bad-hdtbl.ms >bad-hdtbl.ms.pdf s.tmac:bad-hdtbl.ms:5: error: sorry, .TR not implemented bad-hdtbl.ms:7: Each table (.TBL) should contain at least one table row (.TR)! bad-hdtbl.ms:7: There is only 1 column in the 0th row but 3 are expected. -- T. Kurt Bond, [email protected]
