Re: Inconsistent TC Section Title Indentation in mm?

Hi Alexis,

I am not quite sure whether I see any difference in indentation, or any 
layout aspect at all. Not to the naked eye, at least. Then I tried a 
comparison with diffpdf and that did not reveal any differences either.

Best,

Oliver.


On 06/12/2025 01:03, Alexis (surryhill) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> while familiarizing myself with the capabilities of the mm macros, I
> noticed that the section titles on the table of contents pages, list
> of figures, tables, etc. pages—produced by the TC macro—appear
> misaligned, i.e. not properly centered.
>
> To validate my assumption I replaced the section title strings with
> a line-length rule to visualize page offsets and line-lengths.
>
> Reading through m.tmac I found that adding an `.in` macro call before
> writing the section title in the print-ds macro definition seems
> to remedy the issue.
>
> Quite possibly this approach is just a workaround and the actual
> issues lies elsewhere. Hence I kindly request other groff and mm
> users to validate or refute the behaviour I'm observing and my
> attempt to resolve it.
>
> Please find attached a patch, a minimal working example to demonstrate
> the issue, and two PDFs showing the mwe output before and after the
> patch was applied.
>
>
> Thanks
> Alexis
>
>
>
> —————
> P.S: I'm using a groff built from the latest changeset; as of this
> writing that is 2542eb3f2ef12be6696e0e305937f82f87549df5
> from Fri Dec 5 07:02:13 2025 -0600 and have the following environment
> variables set:
> GROFF_ENCODING=utf-8
> GROFF_TYPESETTER=pdf
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