Re: <DKIM> Re: Issue with output format of "mom" macro document

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Richard,

On Thu, Feb 01 2018 at 11:25:21 PM, Serge Baumer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Richard Ellis writes:

>> groff version 1.22.3.
>> 
>> I have a test 'mom' macro file formatted as below:
[...]
>> 
>> When I render that file using this groff command line:
>> 
>>     groff -mom -Tps test1.mom > test1.ps
>> 
>> I get an output postscript file where the first page is typeset
>> properly, but the second page has both columns of text typeset on top
>> of each other, and both columns are in the column 2 position (right
>> hand column) on the page.
>> 
>> I also get the same result if I render to pdf.

I can see the same problem on the groff installed on my Arch Linux
system and by recompiling groff 1.22.3 from the official tarball.

> I've got all the output correct. Maybe your groff build doesn't have
> upstream patches. The 1.22.3 version is the last official release (if I
> understand correctly), and it's of 2014. Both groff and mom have
> undergone many changes since then.

Indeed, there is no problem on the latest version from the git repo.

I was preparing a new release now, but still have some technical
problems (In theory I have all the necessary rights but I still can't
upload packages on GNU's ftp sites).

You can build the up-to-date version of groff with:

  git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/groff.git
  cd groff
  ./bootstrap
  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../configure
  make -j
  make install

Regards,

Bertrand Garrigues