Is there any chance of getting a fix for the following problem in the upcoming release of groff? Should I add it as a bug report on savannah.gnu.org?
Did anyone try the patch from Tadziu Hoffman in the message at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-08/msg00035.html ? On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 7:56 AM Tadziu Hoffmann < hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > > > but unless this is historical behaviour that must be > > preserved, isn't the order wrong and `@IP' should get > > the paragraph reset before interpreting its `$2'? > > Certainly. I can't imagine this is intended behavior > and should be preserved, since it runs counter to all > expectations, and there appears to be no good technical > reason for requiring it to be this way. It's just a bug > that should be fixed. Also, I don't think GROWPS was ever > in the original ms macros, so I expect that the number > of historically relevant documents that make use of this > feature would be quite limited. > > I hadn't yet had time to look at the macros in more detail, > but I agree that since IP resets the font size anyway, it > should do this before interpreting its arguments (so that > the arguments refer to the size of the text that is typeset > by IP), although at first glance it had appeared to me that > the reset is delegated to a common macro that seems to expect > all values to be set already. > > > > -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtb...@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io