Re: mmroff limitations (was: Groff's -mm Indexing)

[Damian McGuckin]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, Oliver Corff wrote:

> Hi Damian,
> >  in the document itself.  I still hit a problem with
> >
> >      .SK
> >      .ce
> >      INDEX
> >      .SP 2
> >      .2C
> >      .so myindex
> >      .1C
> >
> >  where I get an extra blank page but I can easily trash that.

Because

        .TC

comes after the .1C, there were two page breaks.

> The manual groff_mm(7) says:
>
> 1C [1] Begin  one-column  processing.   A 1 as an argument disables the
> page break.

Yes thank you.

I should RTFM heh?  I never realised it supported that option.

Thanks - Damian

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