[14059] in Athena Bugs
Re: EZ footnotes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fool)
Thu Dec 14 12:21:25 1995
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 12:21:17 -0500
From: Fool <yandros@infocalypse.MIT.EDU>
To: abbe@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14049] in Athena Bugs"
[14049] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abbe@MIT.EDU) Athena Bugs 12/11/95 14:45 (18 lines)
From: abbe@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:45:35 -0500
Occasionally, if you put a certain footnote in a certain place in an
ez document, a large chunk of the document immediately following the
footnote will fail to preview or print. If you take the footnote out
and change some minor thing in its text or put it back in a slightly
different location, it will work normally again. I haven't been able
to come up with a pattern for what locations and what footnote lengths
cause this, but if anyone is ever actually trying to deal with ez bugs
(hah) they might want to take a look at it.
What happens is that the troff document that ez passes out for
formatting somehow manages to put part of the footnote just past the
end of the page. This confuses the post-processor somehow and causes
it to write out the entire rest of the document on the rest of the
current `page', below where the page actually ends. To my knowledge,
no one has actually followed it far enough to figure out where the
fault actually lies (troff or ez), although it seems likely that the
fault lies in the troff document produced by EZ. Rearranging things
slightly causes the footnote to either appear all the way on the page
or on the next page, which gets around the problem.
