Re: [BUG] gropdf: Hardcoded (spaces) indentation in .EX/.EE is ignored

[Deri]

On Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:35:44 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2022-12-17T14:37:59+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > In the Linux man-pages, the exmaple programs are written almost as if
> > they were C programs; that is, we don't use .RS for indenting, or
> > stuff like that.  We just dump the programs from the .c file, and do
> > the minimal adaptations to make it work (e.g., transform - into \-).
> > That makes them very maintainable.
> > 
> > However, when the examples are transformed into PDF (and don't
> > remember about HTML, but chances are high it's also buggy) the
> > indentation is broken:
> > 
> > <http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/LinuxManBook.pdf#pdf%3Abm11943>
> > 
> > Please have a look at it.
> 
> At least part of this looks like the same issue as with the suffixes(7)
> page.  Lines with leading spaces, be they in table entries as there or
> not, as here, are not being handled correctly, and that could be
> throwing off subsequent arithmetic involving the drawing position.

Hi Alex,

Exactly the same issue, premature evisceration (of leading spaces)! Fixed 
version in the same place.

Cheers 

Deri