On Wednesday 25 June 2008 23:53:07 Louis Guillaume wrote:
I have just started to use the pdfmark macros along with -ms and
pdfroff. It appears that the output is doubled. The resulting pdf
has the contents twice.
The document is rendered correctly with plain-old groff, but of
course none of the pdfmark stuff works without that pdfroff.
Is this a known bug?
No, but it is a known feature :-)
Or am I doing something wrong. This is the invocation:
$ pdfroff -tp -ms -m pdfmark --report-progress lipsum.ms > a.pdf
pdfroff incorporates a rather gruesome hack to collate tables of
contents, such as those emitted by the ms .TC macro, from the end to
the beginning of the document; effectively, it emits the document
twice, capturing the body text in the first pass, and the TOC in the
second, then pushes the two through ghostscript in collated order.
IIRC, the spdf macro package redefines the .TC macro, adding some
voodoo to suppress TOC output in the first pass, and body text in the
second, but if you don't use this macro, you get the full body text
in both passes, hence the doubled output you are seeing. To avoid
this, you should add the `--no-toc-relocation' option...
$ pdfroff -tp -ms -mpdfmark --no-toc --report lipsum.ms > a.pdf
HTH,
Keith.