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bug #65081: [ms] doc/ms.ms: line length can't be changed for "groff" output

Submitter:  Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Submitted:  Tue 26 Dec 2023 07:31:30 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Macro ms Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Incorrect behaviour Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  None
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Tue 26 Dec 2023 08:05:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

original submission:

> Subject: doc/ms.ms: line length can't be changed for "groff"
> output
>
> groff -ms -t -p -rLL=87n -dFAM=H -ww -b -z doc/ms.ms
>
>   shows
>
> doc/ms.ms:543: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation


It can be changed, and you'd see this if you didn't discard the output.


$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff --version | head -n 1
GNU groff version 1.23.0
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -a -b -ww -ms -dFAM=H -p -t ./doc/ms.ms |head
<beginning of page>
 Using groff with the ms Macro Package

 Larry Kollar
 kollar@alltel.net
 G. Branden Robinson
 g.branden.robinson@gmail.com
 The ms (<lq>manuscript<rq>) package is suitable for the composition of letters,
 memoranda, reports, and books. These groff macros feature cover page and
 table of contents generation, automatically numbered headings, several para<hy>
./doc/ms.ms:542: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -a -b -ww -ms -dFAM=H -rLL=120n -p -t ./doc/ms.ms |head
<beginning of page>
 Using groff with the ms Macro Package

 Larry Kollar
 kollar@alltel.net
 G. Branden Robinson
 g.branden.robinson@gmail.com
 The ms (<lq>manuscript<rq>) package is suitable for the composition of letters, memoranda, reports, and
 books. These groff macros feature cover page and table of contents generation, automatically num<hy>
 bered headings, several paragraph styles, a variety of text styling options, footnotes, and multi-column


It is furthermore not an error for this document to throw the warning when you change the font family.  Helvetica doesn't have the same metrics as Times.  One should expect to get warnings, or overset lines when filling is disabled, if one changes the typeface.

Resolving as invalid.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Tue 26 Dec 2023 07:31:30 PM UTC, original submission:  

Subject: doc/ms.ms: line length can't be changed for "groff"
output

groff -ms -t -p -rLL=87n -dFAM=H -ww -b -z doc/ms.ms

  shows

doc/ms.ms:543: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation

  My version of "test-groff" and "tmac/s.tmac" shows

doc/ms.ms:543: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation
      .l = 79n (435000u) .i = 0u TW (table width)= 86n (475544u)

  Putting ".nr LL 87n" after ".if n \{...\}" in "ms.ms" changes
nothing.


Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>

 

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