Hi Marcus, At 2024-07-25T09:59:12+0200, me.gr...@mro.name wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:28:04 -0500 > "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The subsection/node "Page Location Traps" discusses how to do this > > and offers a simple example of the setup and use of header and > > footer traps. > > frankly I am usually hesitant to engage with traps, but your nudge > encouraged me to do so and it turned out quite fruitful. See > https://mro.name/2024/brief-dina4.roff
I'm glad to hear it! [...] > P.S.: I wonder why there's a single word on the page's last line, but > I can live with that. It is because you used (line-)breaking requests in your traps without also using the no-break control character. .de hd \" page header . sp 3 . tl |Hinterbichlbach den 24. Juli 2024||%/2| . sp 1 .. .de ft \" page footer . bp \" just a page break to get a bottom margin .. .wh 0 hd \" trap at top of the page .wh -5 ft \" trap at bottom of the page As I put it recently to Dave Kemper, "[w]ords from a partially collected line will spurt out like mustard if, inside trap-called macros, one isn't careful with requests that imply breaks."[1] I changed them as follows: $ diff -u brief-dina4{,-gbr}.roff --- brief-dina4.roff 2024-07-25 02:53:52.000000000 -0500 +++ brief-dina4-gbr.roff 2024-08-09 03:12:20.236198546 -0500 @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ .ll 17.6c .lt 17.6c .de hd \" page header -. sp 3 +' sp 3 . tl |Hinterbichlbach den 24. Juli 2024||%/2| -. sp 1 +' sp 1 .. .de ft \" page footer -. bp \" just a page break to get a bottom margin +' bp \" just a page break to get a bottom margin .. .wh 0 hd \" trap at top of the page .wh -5 ft \" trap at bottom of the page ...and got the following results in output, which I think solves the problem you observed. $ nroff -k brief-dina4.roff >| A $ nroff -k brief-dina4-gbr.roff >| B $ diff -u [AB] --- A 2024-08-09 03:13:07.324051316 -0500 +++ B 2024-08-09 03:13:11.428038486 -0500 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at - vero + @@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ Hinterbichlbach den 24. Juli 2024 2/2 - eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent lupta‐ - tum zzril delenit augue duis dolore ‐e feugait nulla facilisi. Lorem - ipsum dolor sit amet, + vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent + luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore ‐e feugait nulla facilisi. + Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse - molestie + @@ -135,10 +135,10 @@ Hinterbichlbach den 24. Juli 2024 3/2 - consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros - et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum - zzril delenit augue duis dolore ‐e feugait nulla facilisi. Lorem ip‐ - sum dolor sit amet, + molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at + vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent + luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore ‐e feugait nulla facilisi. + Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Viele Grüße, Euer Mustermax Regards, Branden [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63176
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