Re: [hdtbl] make the "hdtbl" package usable with other macro packages

Deri via discussion of the GNU roff typesetting system and related software <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:41:53 +0100

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On Sunday, 14 June 2026 19:39:24 BST Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>   Forgot to add the hdtbl-file to the appendix.

Hi Bjarni,

Unfortunately your changes are not backward compatible with any existing 
documents which use hdtbl. I have posted a patch to:-

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67418

Which (with a few caveats) allows -mhdtbl to be used with -ms or -mm.

Cheers

Deri