Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

[T. Kurt Bond]

When I tried this with groff 1.22.4 I got a bad result, with the table
cells not flowed correctly and the table itself too wide and extending off
the right side of the PDF:
[image: image.png]

I think you were expecting something like this:
[image: image.png]
which is what I get when I change the last format line to leave out the
width specifications like this: "lti | lt | lp8 | l." and ran it with the
slightly munged (but with nothing in mom changed) and several months out of
date version of groff from git.  (it's out of date since it's been several
months since making groff finished successfully.  I'm on macOS, and I
*think* it's something in Xcode causing the problem.)

Perhaps something changed in mom between 1.22.4 and the git version of
groff?  You might be able to install a newer version of mom from the mom
download page <https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html> and check if that
works with 1.22.4?


On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:43 AM Bento Borges Schirmer <
bbschirmer@inf.ufsm.br> wrote:

> Hey, thanks for the quick response!
>
> > I don't know what the intended appearance was supposed to be, but
> > this sort-of works;  substitute a tab-character for each  <TAB>   ...
>
> Sorry about my omission, but I did use tab; I guess they were replaced by
> spaces
> after sending the e-mail, however. For instance, if I use tab(@) and
> replace the
> tabs with @, the problem persists with the mom package. I now perceive
> that the
> following error ensues:
>
> $ groff -Tpdf -t -mom exemplo-minimo-mom.mom > exemplo-minimo-mom.pdf
> troff: exemplo-minimo-mom.mom:2: can't transparently output node at top
> level
> warning: file 'exemplo-minimo-mom.mom', around line 13:
>   table wider than line width
>
> $ pdfmom -t exemplo-minimo-mom.mom > exemplo-minimo-mom.pdf
> troff: exemplo-minimo-mom.mom:2: can't transparently output node at top
> level
> warning: file 'exemplo-minimo-mom.mom', around line 13:
>   table wider than line width
>
> even though I expected T{ T} to handle this.
> https://www.troff.org/faq.html
> has an image illustrating what I expected, whereas the table currently just
> runs off to the right of the page unless I don't use the mom package.
>
> Best regards,
> Bento
>
>

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T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io