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Re: [Groff] man makro oddity
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walter harms |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] man makro oddity |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:59:01 +0100 |
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Werner LEMBERG schrieb:
>> i was playing with man pages and found by chance that empty lines
>> before .TH seems to confuse groff.
>
> `Confuse'? I don't think so.
>
>> <code>
>> ./"
>>
>> ./"
>>
>> ./"
>> .TH The header
>>
>> ....
>> </code>
>>
>> works fine (no warnings what so ever) but has am empty page in front
>> and changes in page numbering are ignored.
>>
>> <code>
>> ./"
>> ./"
>> ./"
>> .TH The header
>>
>> ....
>> </code>
>>
>> But this produces the desired output. Is is possible to have a
>> warning, when accidentally empty lines in front are found?
>
> It's probably not worth the time to fix this. Note that you can
> concatenate various man pages – in both man and mdoc formats, IIRC;
> .TH then needs to start a new page. The result you are seeing is a
> side effect of this.
>
>
I do not think there is anything to "fix", it is simply a question of helping
users. Empty lines before .TH are most likely not what the user intended. *if*
some can
fix that easy (read: print a warning) someone should do.
re,
wh