Re: [Groff] UTP Chapters and problems with macros.

[Meg McRoberts]

I will look at these when they are posted.  As for
the rewrite, I'm hoping I can do some of the chapters.
I've been scratching a few notes as I go along, but
I think we agreed that we wanted to finish getting
the original chapters coded before we started explicit
conversations about the rewrite, correct?

meg

--- Michael Hobgood <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>       I just emailed Larry new Chapters 8, 9, 10,
> 15,17,18.  The macro problems were cured by explicitly
> resetting font changes I'd made inside .Ps/.Pe pairs.
> Jon is perplexed about why older macros worked and the
> new ones did not.  I've no clue, but no the issue is
> moot. Hopefully Larry will get the chapters up before
> he goes on vacation. If not, well, we will have to 
> wait. 
>       I did find one difference between groff-1.17.2
> and groff-1.18.  In one chapter I had used unpaddable
> spaces within a line that was part of a table.  1.17.2
> liked it and performed the line adjusting accordingly.
> 1.18 did not like it, and ignored the unpaddable spaces.
> Does this warrant bug status, or it is just best to 
> blow it off.
>       Any who would like to review the chapters I've
> worked on and let me know of any remaining bugs you 
> find (I'm not Knuth but they should be clean), I'll
> appreciate your effort.
>       This has been real, and it has been fun.
> Yes, it has even been real fun.  Now, who is going to
> write all the updated chapters for the second edition?
> 
> Michael Hobgood
> 
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