Re: vox clamantis in deserto

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Doug,

At 2024-07-03T14:25:05-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> When I picked up a copy of 1.23.0 barely a week after its release, I
> found (and reported) that [groff -ms -p] had a fatal auto-immune
> disease, in which -ms diagnosed customary pic output as invalid.
> Nearly a year later, our departmental computer center just caught the
> disease from Ubuntu.

I had forgotten about this problem.  (Magus venit sed non erat locus ad
praesepium?)

On 17 July, I posted a workaround patch to the mailing list (a
one-liner):

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-07/msg00117.html

The next day I pushed a proper fix to the groff Git repository (another
one-liner).

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2023-07/msg00288.html

I apologize for the regression.

> If complaints of unusability have not been piling up in the interim,

I would admit that they don't seem to have done so with this bug.

> it seems that users like me, with gobs of -ms -p documents, are a
> relict endangerd species.

Possibly.  :(

I'll reply separately to this list about the most widespread complaints
I've seen about groff 1.23.0.  As often happens, I got discursive.

Regards,
Branden

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