Re: [Groff] Avoiding pagination (bug and fix in grohtml)

[Gaius Mulley]

Timothy Groves <address@hidden> writes:

> I could only find groff 1.17, and while it paginates correctly, it
> unfortunately has forgotten that a blank line=paragraph start...This
> only occurs (again) in grohtml.  How do I switch that back on?

yes this is definitely a bug in grohtml, and here is the patch
relative to the current cvs snapshot:

Thanks for reporting the bug,

Gaius

--- groff-cvs/src/roff/troff/div.cc     Mon May  7 14:36:25 2001
+++ groff-html/src/roff/troff/div.cc    Wed Jun 20 12:25:29 2001
@@ -767,9 +767,10 @@
 void blank_line()
 {
   curenv->do_break();
-  if (!trap_sprung_flag && !curdiv->no_space_mode)
+  if (!trap_sprung_flag && !curdiv->no_space_mode) {
     curdiv->space(curenv->get_vertical_spacing());
-  else
+    curenv->add_html_tag(".sp", 1);
+  } else
     truncated_space += curenv->get_vertical_spacing();
 }