Re: [bug #67992] warn users about how to employ `\X` very early in a document

"Robin Haberkorn" via discussion of the GNU roff typesetting system and related software <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:08:45 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general,gmane.comp.printing.groff.bugs
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On Thu Feb 5, 2026 at 04:00:31 GMT +01, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Fortunately I have a workaround.
>
> If the very first thing you want to do in a document is blast a device
> extension command to it, and you have already configured a vertical
> position trap within the first vee of the document--or a macro package
> has done so for you--then prefix that request or escape sequence with
> the `\&` (dummy character) escape sequence.

I am not so sure we're through with this. I get some CI failures for one of
my projects on Fedora Rawhide, which is currently on Groff 1.24.0-1.fc45.
.device requests result in "error: spurious end trap token detected!".
And they aren't the first thing in the document. Needless to say
they worked on all previous versions of Groff.

I will have to reproduce this and minify some test case.

Regards,
Robin

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