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bug #60260: Incorrect warnings of dangling .el with bracket-less nesting

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Submitted:  Fri 19 Mar 2021 04:00:48 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Incorrect behaviour Status:  None
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Sat 20 Mar 2021 07:31:57 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The referenced email-list thread begins at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-03/msg00015.html.

Later in the thread, Tadziu suggests that the warnings are legitimate.  If so, this situation should probably be documented better, since it's somewhat nonintuitive.  (Bug #59434 also concerns documenting a surprising "unbalanced .el request" warning.)

Dave <barx>
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Fri 19 Mar 2021 04:13:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Forgot to mention that the conditionals work correctly in spite of the warnings.

The code also works correctly on Heirloom Doctools nroff, according to Branden's test (with an example tweaked to not use gnu extended syntax).

So the groff warning is probably incorrect.

Jim Avera <jimav>
Fri 19 Mar 2021 04:00:48 PM UTC, original submission:  

The code below warns about "unbalanced .el request" if either the first or second condition is true (with -w all).

The warnings do not happen if the "else" statements are wrapped in \{\ ... \} but the brackets are not supposed to be necessary, according to Branden Robinson (in a reply to a question on the -email is unavailable- email list). 

Branden also noted that bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45502 might be related.

#!/bin/sh
groff -w all >/dev/null <<'EOF'
.de mymac
.  tm1 "--- mymac called with '\\$1' ---
.  ie '\\$1'a' .tm1 "  CASE a
.  el .ie '\\$1'b' .tm1 "  CASE b
.  el .ie '\\$1'c' .tm1 "  CASE c
.  el .tm1 "  Got something else (\\$1)
..
.mymac a
.mymac b
.mymac c
.mymac d
EOF

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