[bug #63176] [me] After column-count changes, -me might place running text on page below footnote

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #63176 (project groff):

[comment #4 comment #4:]
> This seems tricky enough that I'm inclined to simply add
> another diagnostic message: if there are pending footnotes
> when the number of columns is changes, yell about it.

There already _is_ an error message, but--as it's not terribly illuminating of
the problem--something more accurate can't hurt.

> I think I might have pitched this idea before.

Quite possibly.  Bug #58736 is long and my eyes tend to glaze over if I try to
reread through it all.  (And I even wrote a good chunk of its verbiage.)

> I don't think it would _resolve_ this issue, but it seems like
> footnote support in _me_(7) is going to require some serious
> attention to surmount the problems you've raised, which kicks
> this into 1.24 territory.

Sure, at this point I expect any substantive change to be 1.24 at the
earliest, and maybe later, since there are certainly higher priority bugs out
there.  I've retooled my own macros to sidestep this issue, so I have no
personal stake in this being fixed; just want to get it documented.


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