Hey Deri, I downloaded your patched m.tmac, uncompressed it and added the option -M to access it, it worked.
For the example provided, it rendered correctly, although it printed the following before exiting with status 0: troff:tmac2/m.tmac:4341: warning: numeric expression missing troff:cv.mm:1: warning: numeric expression missing troff:cv.mm:27: warning: numeric expression missing troff:cv.mm:28: warning: numeric expression missing troff: warning: numeric expression missing I tried to use it on the CV I created yesterday, I added replaced one line with a .HU heading on the first right column, and it also worked visually, but also printed the following: troff:/home/pebolim/Random/Random/Troff/mm-alt-col-heading/tmac2/m.tmac:4341: warning: numeric expression missing troff:cv.mm:31: warning: numeric expression missing troff:cv.mm:85: warning: numeric expression missing troff: warning: numeric expression missing Sorry for low effort testing, that's it for now Best regards, Bento Em qua., 21 de out. de 2026 às 09:26, Deri <[email protected]> escreveu: > > On Tuesday, 20 October 2026 23:25:24 British Summer Time Bento Borges > Schirmer wrote: > > Em ter., 20 de out. de 2026 às 16:43, G. Branden Robinson > > > > <[email protected]> escreveu: > > > There are likely at least two bugs here. > > > > > > 1. The error diagnostic makes no damn sense. > > > > > > 2. We shouldn't be overprinting text in multi-column mode (or > > > single-column mode, for that matter) unless the input document > jumps > > > through hoops to make that happen. Clearly some math is off > > > somewhere, and would appear to have been for at least a decade. > > > > > > Thanks for the report. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Branden > > > > always a pleasure to share rare troubles I face and help groff become > > stronger > > > > o7 > > Hi Bento, > > Over at <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68809> I posited the issue is > caused by the indentation being set to 0 in @reset (which is called by the > H macro). Branden thinks I'm "not completely wrong", so I wondered if you > can test whether the attached "fixed" version of m.tmac solves the problem. > > Cheers > > Deri >
