In the code block below I define tick and every.
{signal: [
{name: 'clk', wave: 'l.h.l.h.l.h.l.h.l.h.l.h.l..'}
],
head: { text: 'Test',
tick:0,
every:2
},
foot: { text: "Test2",
tick: 0,
every: 4
}
}
If I use the online wavedrom editor it works as expected:

When using wavedrom-cli I instead get the image below:

I am using version 2.8.1 of wavedrom-cli.