Re: [Groff] UTP Macro bugs

[Jon Snader]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:32:33PM -0700, Meg McRoberts wrote:
> 
> --- Jon Snader <address@hidden> wrote:
> > UTPers,
> > 
> > As an experiment I added 1v worth of space before drawing the box
> > for the SS macro.  That improves things immensely. 
> 
> Oh yes!  Very nice!  And this time I got boxes with splines for corners
> as well -- looks good!  I would like to see just a little more space
> on the inside top of the box -- right now, there is more space between
> the text and the bottom line than between the top.
> 
> Also, could we get a bit more space between the text and the box on
> the left?  The initial letter of each line is almost on the line.  I
> reran ch06.t with the new utp.mac -- if the first letter in the first
> line is uppercase, it actually crosses the upper left box spline!
> 
> The good news is that the .Ps problems I saw in my previous version
> have miraculously resolved themselves as well.  However, it appears
> that the new .SS is forcing inappropriate page breaks somehow.  To
> illustrate from my run of ch06.t, on page 6 (the PH/PF example) we
> have 8 lines of text and space preceeding a .SS, then a page break.
> The boxed text (a one-liner) is at the top of page 7, followed by three
> lines of text and another page break before another .SS -- and thus it
> goes throughout the chapter.  Any idea what this is?
> 

I fixed all this and sent the updated utp.mac file to the list earlier
today, but I haven't received the message yet.  Just in case I messed
up the address and the mail server hasn't gotten around to telling me
yet, I am resending it.

Jon Snader

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