URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66439>
Summary: [mm] use of "bottom block" feature corrupts letter
output
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Wed 13 Nov 2024 11:19:48 PM UTC
Category: Macro package mm
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Wed 13 Nov 2024 11:19:48 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Input:
$ cat ATTIC/oliver-letter.mm
.BS
.tl 'Contact'Tax ID'Bank Account/IBAN'
.tl 'me@org'12334'DE12123123450100'
.BE
.ND "17 May 2023"
.WA "Epi G. Netic" "Head of Research"
123 Main Street
Anytown, ST 10101
.WE
.IA "Rufus T. Arbogast" "Autovectorization Guru"
456 Elsewhere Avenue
Nirvana, PA 20406
.IE
.LT
.P
We have a research leak!
The next person I catch embedding engineering samples of our Lightspeed
Overdrive 2048-core processors in cork coasters distributed at trade
shows is going to regret it.
.FC
.SG
.NS
sundry careless people
.NE
_groff_ 1.22.3, 1.22.4, 1.23.0, and Git HEAD output (1.22.3 shown):
$ ~/groff-1.22.3/bin/nroff -mm ATTIC/oliver-letter.mm | cat -s
‐ 1 ‐
We have a research leak! The next person I catch embedding
engineering samples of our Lightspeed Overdrive 2048‐core
processors in cork coasters distributed at trade shows is
going to regret it.
Yours very truly,
Epi G. Netic
Head of Research
Copy to
sundry careless people
Contact Tax ID Bank Account/IBAN
me@org 12334 DE12123123450100
DWB 3.3 output:
$ DWBHOME=~/dwb ~/dwb/bin/nroff -mm ATTIC/oliver-letter.mm | cat -s
123 Main Street
Anytown, ST 10101
17 May 2023
Rufus T. Arbogast
Autovectorization Guru
456 Elsewhere Avenue
Nirvana, PA 20406
We have a research leak! The next person I catch embedding
engineering samples of our Lightspeed Overdrive 2048-core
processors in cork coasters distributed at trade shows is
going to regret it.
Yours very truly,
Epi G. Netic
Head of Research
Copy to
sundry careless people
Contact Tax ID Bank Account/IBAN
me@org 12334 DE12123123450100
(DWB has a bug positioning the date in _nroff_ mode. It also appears to use
an incorrect page offset for the bottom block.)
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