Also, why would the problem be in MM? MM is working. I think the problem is in tbl.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > 1. I do use Heirloom troff and I often use MM. > > 2. The current behavior is wrong, period. The fact that changes are > being made to Heirloom at all proves that it isn't a think of absolute > perfection - not to be touched. If this issue were reported back when MM > was being developed, they would have fixed it. > > 3. The proposed solutions are awkward, unnatural, and something one has > to constantly remember. > > I think either tbl should use the .ll value, or the W register _after_ the > load and _without_ having to set it from the command line. .ll works with > MM in Heirloom and groff. Tbl should too. It doesn't make sense to > require all kinds of hoops just to get something as basic as .ll to work. > > Thanks! > > Blake McBride > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:45 AM, <carsten.ku...@arcor.de> wrote: > >> Hi Ralph, >> >> > groff_mm(7): >> > >> > PGFORM [linelength [pagelength [pageoffset [1]]]] >> >> thank you! >> >> If one *uses* heirlooms -mm macros and *really* needs that feature it >> could be added. Otherwise I would agree with Tadziu that initially setting >> W should be sufficient. The -ms macros had register LL, there must be a >> reason that such a feature had not been put into AT&T's -mm (typography >> rules?). >> >> (The macro name PGFORM would than need a ".do xflag 3" at the beginning >> of a heirloom roff document since with default settings only two character >> identifiers are enabled.) >> >> --Carsten >> >> >