Re: mis-formatting of leading spaces

[Werner LEMBERG]

> This seems to be a bug in groff's handling of the XA/XS macros,
> but it may go deeper than that.

It is deeper.  Sometimes I wonder how such elementary bugs can go
unnoticed such a long time -- the problem must have been in groff
since ever.

> #  When an XA/XS entry is broken between two lines and
> #       the second line starts with leading spaces and
> #       the following text begins in Courier font,
> #  the leading spaces get interpreted as being in Courier.

Even a simple

  foo
      \f[CW]bar

triggers the bug: the space width in the loop which handles leading
spaces hasn't been saved properly.

Thanks for the report.  It is now fixed in the CVS.


    Werner