URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53243>
Summary: regression: .hy not working in latest groff build Project: GNU troff Submitted by: barx Submitted on: Tue 27 Feb 2018 07:33:52 PM CST Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Incorrect behaviour Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Bjarni Ingi Gislason pointed out this bug in a comment in bug #53196. That bug documents a different (but related) issue, so I'm opening up this new bug report. As this is a regression since the last release, this should be addressed before the new version of groff is released. The problem is that .hy values 4 and 8 seem not to be honored anymore. I've confirmed that ".hy 8" works in the official groff release, but not in the latest code built from git. I've not yet backtracked to see which commit introduced the bug. Three lines of groff input illustrate this: groff -a << EOF .hy 8 .ll 1i He is a skilled acrobat. EOF Running this on a groff built from current git code produces: <beginning of page> He is a skilled ac<hy> robat. ".hy 8" should prevent the word "acrobat" from being hyphenated after two characters. And indeed, when run on the latest released groff, it does so, pushing the whole word onto the next line. (Bjarni's proposed solution is to remove these two values from groff's .hy documentation and emit a warning if the user uses them. However, a change to functionality that has been documented and working in groff for two decades needs to be discussed on the groff email list before being implemented. I will leave it to Bjarni to initiate this discussion if he feels that is the best way to proceed.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53243> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list bug-groff@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff