[bug #61428] [me] new page-length restriction too restrictive

[Dave]

Update of bug #61428 (project groff):

                  Status:             In Progress => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
         Planned Release:                    None => 1.23.0                 

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Follow-up Comment #12:

Commits 4d5b2468
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=4d5b2468> and f6fcbba9
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=f6fcbba9> together
implemented the patch of comment #11.

[comment #11 comment #11:]
> Upon further reflection, I would argue _against_ that position.
> 
> _me_(7) _unconditionally_ sets up header and footer traps. 
> Even the `hx` macro doesn't unset them; it simply causes the
> titles to not be emitted when they are encountered.  See
> registers `?H`, `?h`, and the macro `@t`.

Yes, good points.

> 
> $ printf '.pl 2v\n.nr fm 0\n.nr hm 0\n.nr tm 0\n.nr bm (-0)\nHello.\n' | tg
-me -Tascii
> 
> Hello.
> 

I'm not sure what the significance here is of setting bm to a negative 0, but
the example works the same with an unadorned 0 (as one would expect).

> If you want _me_(7) to do single-line document formatting,
> please file that as a separate ticket.  :P

Haha, no, I'm quite happy with the fix as implemented.  Thank you!

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