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bug #63159: [ms] bracketing a section heading with a keep can record wrong page # for TOC

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Wed 05 Oct 2022 06:47:20 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Macro ms Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Incorrect behaviour Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Planned Release:  None
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Wed 05 Oct 2022 06:47:20 AM UTC, original submission:  

I don't have a minimal reproducer yet, but encountered this issue while working on doc/ms.ms.

I'm attaching the current version the file from my working copy.  Here is the relevant portion.


Documents that need to determine whether they are being formatted with
.I "groff ms"
or another implementation should test this register.
.
.
.\" XXX: We can't use a keep here because the wrong page number will be
.\" recorded in the table of contents.
.KS
.NH 2
Unix Version\~7
.BI ms
macros not implemented by
.BI "groff ms"
.XS
        Unix Version 7
.I ms
macros not implemented by
.I "groff ms"
.XE
.LP
Several macros described in the Unix Version\~7
.I ms
documentation are unimplemented by
.I "groff ms"
because they are specific to the requirements of documents produced
internally by Bell Laboratories,
some of which also require a glyph for the Bell System logo that
.I groff
does not support.
...
For informal purposes,
a simple definition of
.CW UX
should maintain the readability of the document's substance.
.
.
.TS
box center;
lf(CR).
\&.rm UX
\&.ds UX Unix\[rs]"
.TE
.KE


Thanks to the keep, the section doesn't start until page 24, but the TOC records it as occurring on page 23.

Also affects groff 1.22.4.  Likely quite old.

Punting past 1.23.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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file #53794:  ms.ms added by gbranden (70KiB - text/x-troff-ms)

 

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