Thanks for your advice.
The bug is that while
.DS 1
uses the standard indent,
.DS 1 1
does NOT use the standard indent.
However
.DS 1 1 5
works (but the third argument is supposed to be option).
So, yes, it is a bug!
Regards - Damian
Pacific Engineering
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Anton Shepelev wrote:
Does not the current behavior agree with the
groff_mm manpage, which states for .DS that:
`rindent shortens the line length by that amount.
If you don't pass the `rindent' as the third parame-
ter, you get the same line length, but
I also pulled the last version down and everything compiled just fine. I
observed the same
"can't transparently output node at top level" messages but no unrecoverable
error from Ghostscript.
My Ghostscript version is 9.53.3 so maybe consider upgrading ? This looks like
an error between gs
and
Damian McGuckin:
> I went back to a very old document using troff and
> MM. It is a tutorial on using troff at the macro
> package level without needing to know much about
> the low level troff. I was contemplating updating
> it and putting it out there.
>
> I am trying to use a display
Damian McGuckin:
> I went back to a very old document using troff and
> MM. It is a tutorial on using troff at the macro
> package level without needing to know much about
> the low level troff. I was contemplating updating
> it and putting it out there.
>
> I am trying to use a display
