Re: [Groff] Spurious whitelines

[Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai]

-On [20000131 09:38], Werner LEMBERG (address@hidden) wrote:

[snip example]

>> You clearly see two lines which shouldn't be there.
>
>I can repeat this, but the question you have asked my should be a
>different one:
>
>  Where are the page numbers?  I can only see two blank lines but
>  no footer line.

Aha, so they _are_ related to the footers/page numbers.  That was one of
my guesses, but my noviceness in roff doesn't permit me to make claims.
=)

>If you add, say, 200 `.It' lines to the table, you can see this more
>clearly.

Sounds logical ;)

>I think that this is a problem with the doc macros which doesn't
>implement .Bl (or .It, I don't know) correctly if used with -Tascii or
>-Tlatin1.

Hmmm.

In which file would the problem lie then?  In the mdoc subdirectory
files?  [Sorry for being a bit ignorant, I have only recently started to
learn how 'roff works on the inside, instead of just using the macro's.]

>BTW, the macro .Fx is not defined in groff's tmac.doc.  Additionally,
>builtin.1 fails completely if called with -Tdvi...

Oh yes, heh, that's a FreeBSD specific mdoc macro.

.Fx 4.0 . in the example would render:

FreeBSD 4.0.

I think you could dub it the .Os like macro which can be used
everywhere.

>There is a lot to improve apparently!  I would be glad if the tmac.doc
>maintainers (are there still ones?) submit improvements to me so that
>I can include them into the main groff package.

We, as being the FreeBSD project, as well as NetBSD and OpenBSD use the
mdoc package extensively.

I will see if I can pick out some more common ones and interesting ones
and submit them to you guys.

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