Re: "mom": addition of ellipsis causes an over-strike

[Steve Ross]

>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, Steve Ross via wrote:
>> In the resulting PDF output file, the ellipsis appears on page 10,
>> as expected.  However, on the same line, about six characters
>> further to the right, I also see about three characters being
>> over-struck, which is unexpected.
>> 
>> I have attached both the input "mom" file
>> ("sample_docs-steve.mom"), and the output PDF file
>> ("sample_docs-steve.pdf").
>> 
>> The "groff" version is 1.22.3.The "mom" version is 2.4-4_c.
> On Sunday, December 20, 2020, 1:36:59 PM CST, Peter Schaffter 
> <peter@schaffter.ca> wrote: 

> There is no overstriking when your file is processed with groff
> 1.22.4 (and later).  From the age of your originally-installed mom
> and groff, it looks as if your distro hasn't kept up with groff
> development.

Peter,
Thanks.  Updating "groff" to version 1.22.4 fixed my over-strike problem.

You are correct about the non-latest software from my distribution.
Sorry for the noise on the mailing list.

-- Steve Ross