[bug #55060] me: behavior of .ll does not match documentation

[Dave]

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                 Summary: me: behavior of .ll does not match documentation
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: barx
            Submitted on: Mon 19 Nov 2018 05:25:30 PM CST
                Category: Macro - others
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

doc/meref.me describes the macro .ll as "Set line length in all environments."
 This is not what it does:

groff -me -a <<EOF
.ll 2i
The quick brown fox
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
.ev foo
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
jumped over a quick brown fox which
.ev
jumped over a quick brown fox which...
EOF

This has been discussed a couple times over the years on the groff email list.
 The last post on the topic was mine, which left unresolved questions:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2013-09/msg00025.html

No clear solution has emerged from these discussions, and I have no further
input; I'm just creating this bug report so the issue doesn't get forgotten.




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