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[bug #61453] want native mechanism for continuous (non-paginated) render
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Dave |
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[bug #61453] want native mechanism for continuous (non-paginated) rendering |
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Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:37:50 -0400 (EDT) |
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #61453 (group groff):
[comment #7 comment #7:]
> I'm a little nervous of meddling with the semantics of a
> negative page length given the potential for interaction with
> negative vertical drawing positions.
There seem to be (at least) two ways to implement this. When the user
specifies ".pl -1", the code can either:
1. Store -1 as the page length.
2. Set a new flag that indicates page-length handling is to be disregarded.
Any code that compares against page length is made conditional on this flag
being unset.
In many cases, implementation 1 may automatically do what's desired without
further code change. But this raises your concern about interaction with
negative vertical drawing positions.
Implementation 2 is a more invasive change. But because it skips page-length
checking altogether, it avoids the prior concern.
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