Re: [Groff] New tbl warnings in CVS version

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I was thinking maybe a global option like "nowarn" -- the warnings
> > are generally useful, but once a particular table has been debugged
> > you wouldn't want to hear from it again.
>
> This should be quite easy to implement, and I would include it into
> groff if someone (you?) is writing it, but, as mentioned in another
> mail, I don't see much use to that, given that better, less hacky
> solutions are available.

Like I said, I'm seeing these warnings in tables that *aren't*  
breaking the right margin as well as ones that are. It seems like  
combining the global option "expand" with a column width specifier is  
a good (but not 100% reliable) way to trip the warnings. In many  
other cases, the margin break is either so miniscule as to be  
unnoticed, or is an acceptable tradeoff to solve bigger problems.

I already redirect stderr, but it would be nice to reduce the amount  
of noise in that file so I can more easily find real problems. You're  
right about how easy it was to implement; I'll test it tomorrow &  
submit the patch if it seems to do the right thing.

-- Larry