URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61878>
Summary: [tbl] should warn when a boxed, non-kept table is
too big
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Thu 20 Jan 2022 09:04:02 AM UTC
Category: Preprocessor tbl
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
This scenario does not produce a diagnostic. It should.
$ cat EXPERIMENTS/tbl-diagnostic-2.groff
.pl 2v
.vs 3v
.TS
nokeep box;
L.
1
.TE
$ nroff -Tascii -t EXPERIMENTS/tbl-diagnostic-2.groff
----
1
+--+
| |
| |
I have no immediate plans to work on this. It would involve
messing around with the giant blast of *roff spew in
table::init_output(). The scope of the conditions seem a bit
broad. Under the "nokeep" constraint, it might be possible to
warn only after ugly output has been emitted, but that's okay.
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