Re: [Groff] Possible UTP macro bug

[Michael Hobgood]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:54:34AM -0400, Jon Snader wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:56:17AM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> > 
> > Michael Hobgood wrote:
> > 
> > >   I may have stumbled onto a bug in the
> > >X1,X2,X3,X4 macros in the utp macro package.
> > >...
> > >   What appears to be happening is that
> > >the Xx macros can't handle the bottom of the
> > >page all of the time.
> > 
> > I've run into this as well. Putting ".ne 8" (replacing 8 with
> > the vertical space needed by X1..X4 in whatever instance)
> > takes care of it. Wrapping it in .KS/.KE should also work.
> > 
> > It's an easy fix & not page-dependent.
> > 
> 
> I agree with Larry.  I could divert the output of X1...X4 and check
> if there is enough room, but I found in typesetting my book that it's
> best to make tweaks like that by hand since it allows greater control
> over the final layout.  Rich Stevens even took out the .ne statements
> from macros like .SH in his private set of -ms macros, and he did the
> same with .KS/.KE that are in some -ms macros.
> 
> Still, I only live to serve, so if people want some sort of diversion
> for X1...X4 let me know.
> 
> Jon Snader

Well, now that I know what to do, I can't see any reason
to spend time fixing something like this.  And, as you say
stuff like this is best served by manually tweaking the
final layout.  My vote is to ignore it.

Cordially,
Michael Hobgood