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[bug #55081] [me] two-column output does not work with very long page le


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [bug #55081] [me] two-column output does not work with very long page lengths
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 02:47:27 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Update of bug #55081 (project groff):

                  Status:             In Progress => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #5:

I don't think we can redefine `bc` as simply `.rt \\n(_ku`, because it doesn't
go to the correct _horizontal_ place.  Adding an absolute motion prefix `|`
makes no difference.


# Original behavior with .pl 158v.
$ tgu -me EXPERIMENTS/55081.me | cat -s

Column 1.                       Column 2.

# Original behavior with .pl 159v.
$ tgu -me EXPERIMENTS/55081.me | cat -s

Column 1.

Column 2.

# Behavior with .pl 159v and `bc` defined as `.sp \\n(.pu+1u`.
$ tgu -me EXPERIMENTS/55081.me | cat -s

Column 1.

Column 2.

# Behavior with .pl 159v and `bc` defined as `.rt |\\n(_ku`.
$ tgu -me EXPERIMENTS/55081.me | cat -s

Column 1.  Column 2.

# Behavior with .pl 159v and `bc` defined as `.rt \\n(_ku`.
$ tgu -me EXPERIMENTS/55081.me | cat -s

Column 1.  Column 2.



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