[bug #65081] [ms] doc/ms.ms: line length can't be changed for "groff" output

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug#65081 (group groff):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

[comment #0 original submission:]
> Subject: doc/ms.ms: line length can't be changed for "groff"
> output
> 
> groff -ms -t -p -rLL=87n -dFAM=H -ww -b -z doc/ms.ms
> 
>   shows
> 
> doc/ms.ms:543: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation

It *can* be changed, and you'd see this if you didn't discard the output.


$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff --version | head -n 1
GNU groff version 1.23.0
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -a -b -ww -ms -dFAM=H -p -t ./doc/ms.ms |head
<beginning of page>
 Using groff with the ms Macro Package

 Larry Kollar
 kollar@alltel.net
 G. Branden Robinson
 g.branden.robinson@gmail.com
 The ms (<lq>manuscript<rq>) package is suitable for the composition of
letters,
 memoranda, reports, and books. These groff macros feature cover page and
 table of contents generation, automatically numbered headings, several
para<hy>
./doc/ms.ms:542: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -a -b -ww -ms -dFAM=H -rLL=120n -p -t ./doc/ms.ms
|head
<beginning of page>
 Using groff with the ms Macro Package

 Larry Kollar
 kollar@alltel.net
 G. Branden Robinson
 g.branden.robinson@gmail.com
 The ms (<lq>manuscript<rq>) package is suitable for the composition of
letters, memoranda, reports, and
 books. These groff macros feature cover page and table of contents
generation, automatically num<hy>
 bered headings, several paragraph styles, a variety of text styling options,
footnotes, and multi-column


It is furthermore not an error for this document to throw the warning when you
change the font family.  Helvetica doesn't have the same metrics as Times. 
One should expect to get warnings, or overset lines when filling is disabled,
if one changes the typeface.

Resolving as invalid.


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