[Groff] me macros, page break too early : was Re: mm-macros, page break too early

[Deri James]

On Tuesday 05 Mar 2013 15:26:01 Dave Kemper wrote:
> > I have sometimes the problem, that a list triggers a page break too early,
> > e.g. when a list or a picture would easily fit onto the page.
> 
> I reported a similar bug in the -me macros (at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2012-12/msg00011.html),
> though no one has debugged it yet.  If similar things happen in more
> than one macro set, I wonder if there's some root cause in groff itself.
> 
> One curious thing about my bug is that it's not triggered with ASCII
> output, just with PostScript.  Does your happen this way also?

I'm afraid I can't duplicate the problem given the example in your post at the 
URL above. The postscript/pdf produced by groff starts page 2 with 53 (not 
54), and if I add a line before the block the whole block moves to the top of 
page 2. (groff 1.22.2 - papersize A4)

Deri