[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#3180: Dealing with ancient bug report #3180: linuxdoc-sgml semantics and formatting problems

[Agustin Martin]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:25:02PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 1996 at 02:26:00AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Package: linuxdoc-sgml
> > Version: 1.5-2
> ... 
> >  To debian-devel and the package maintainer: I think that most of
> >  these problems are upstream ones; some may require considerable
> >  effort to fix, so I'm causing the bug system to CC the linuxdoc-sgml
> >  mailing list.
 
Hi, Ian
 
> Mailing you about this really ancient bug report, so we get your feedback
> about what to do.
...
> As mentioned above, I do not intend to make deep changes in the package,
> besides fixing bugs when possible and rewritting/reorganizing things in a
> way I like more, so I only intend to have this package in a minimally
> reasonable shape. 
...
> > (d) The filename heading before the first node lists a file in /tmp.
> >     I don't know if this is fixable, but it would be nice if it said
> >     that the thing came originally from programmer.sgml or whatever.
> 
> Output file can be postprocessed to change this info. Unfortunately makeinfo
> is too rigid to do this when first creating the info file. Not sure if this
> worths, but is something I do not discard.

I first modified this in 0.9.65 and added an additional fix in 0.9.66.

...
> > (h) The existence of a paragraph break after <descrip> entries is
> >     unpredictable.
> 
> At the first look seemed that groff gets confused about consecutive multiple
> <p> and empty lines. After a deeper look, my guess is that this is a
> page-break related problem, seems that with current code groff is breaking
> pages in a supposedly continuous text output, ans things are joined in a
> page-break.
> 
> The workaround is to play with the numbers of <p> or empty line. Really
> suboptimal. I wish I could tell groff that this is a continuous text.

I am testing a way to make groff consider the document as a large single
page, based in

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2011-02/msg00020.html
http://www.groff-wiki.info/EmittingOnePage

This seems to work and will go in next upload.

Since these were the last things from your original exhaustive bug report
that I was considering to deal with, I plan to close this historical bug
report with that upload.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin