Re: Pic rounded box corners misplaced with devpdf and landscape doc

[Alexis]

Hi Deri,

I can see how the wording in my previous email can be misleading.

Yes, I am able to build the release 1.23.0 branch as well as your
deri-gropdf-ng branch, if I compile groff manually using a dedicated
development setup created via `nix develop`¹

When I try to build using `nix build`² I run into the following error:
  make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'lib/libgnu.a', needed by 'grodvi'.  Stop.

I believe this is entirely due to my custom changes to the Nix groff
package³ in order to try and get a reproducible build of groff using
Nix based on your branch.
It seems I need to understand a bit more about gnulib and its role
when building groff.


Best
Alexis


¹ https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-develop.html
² https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-build.html
³ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/text/groff/default.nix

Re: Groff hdtbl tables disappear near the footer

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 02:59:15AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> 
> > Here is another example where, when the table doesn't fit on the page,
> > it vanishes and is not carried over to the following page.
> 
> As far as I can tell, hdtbl does not start a new page by itself
> when a table does not fit, but invoking t*hm will output any
> held tables.  The way you have set this up to be called from
> pg@top will print the table, but you have to explicitly request
> a new page with .bp at the end, or provide more running text
> (not inside TBL/ETB) so that ms will eventually start a new page.
> 
  The reason are bugs in the hdtbl macros as shown in the bug
ticket #64772 (comment #9, 2013-11-07), named "[hdtbl] consider
deprecating", in the attached file "hdtbl.tmac.diff"
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff).

  Also look a bug ticket #64967 grops.1.man..."HDTBL"

> However, I think that in this particular case the problem is
> not having the page length correctly set.  Can you try using
> .pl 29.7c somewhere near the top?
> 
> 

  The page format does not fix the bugs in the hdtbl macros.

  Simpler is to change the page size on the command line by adding

-dpaper=a4 -P-pa4

  define "paper" for the formatter, add option "-pa4" for the
output device.

  The default paper size should be defined in "tmac/troffrc"
before "papersize.tmac" is sourced, for example with

.  do if !d paper .do ds paper A4\" use $(PAGE) to configure