mm macros -- infinite loop with certain page lengths

[John Rupley]

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With mm default setup, get "input stack limit exceeded" upon page  
break for range of page lengths:
        .pl 10.2i to .pl 10.6i

[.pl 10.5i is for executive paper, which I use].

If format same text without mm macros (straight troff), there is no  
problem.

The description of the VM command in the groff_mm man page suggests  
you have met this problem already -- shrinking of the page footer  
size gives "input stack limit exceeded" behavior for the default page  
length, .pl 11.0i.

The attached file shows the above behaviour when run through the  
troff formatter.

Thank you,

Best wishes,

John Rupley

test-bp-inf-loop.mm
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