Re: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2023-06-12T19:35:11-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2023-06-09T02:02:48-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > > Hmm...  It might be a subtle point, but mom already compensates
> > > for it any time \D't n' is used to set line weight in a macro.
> > 
> > Ah.  Unless you compensated with \Z'\D't n'', then it sounds like I
> > need to sync my pending fix for Savannah #64285 with a change to the
> > mom macros so that no regression is perceived.
> 
> I've tweaked things so that all calls to \D't n' in the mom macros
> are inside \Z' '.  The changes will be in my next commit.

Cool.

> > ...I think we should pull this [i.e. registering vertical motions
> > of \D escapes inside diversions] down into the formatter and
> > coordinate a cut-over to keep mom documents formatting happily.
> > But for the broader issue, I have no time frame and no estimates.
> 
> As concerns the vertical motions of \D escapes not being added to
> \n[.d],

I was referring to \n[dn], but I should check what happens to `.d` as
well--thanks for pointing this out.

> it will be trivial to update mom whenever you get around to tackling
> the issue at the formatter level.

That's good news.  This issue may take longer to figure out: what
_other_ things should be updating the diversion height but don't?

Regards,
Branden

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