Re: [Groff] Re: new grotty format

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > putting \X'sgr:0'\c in man.local appears to cause an extra couple
> > of line breaks just after the first page header, which is quite
> > noticeable; I haven't been able to find a piece of troff that will
> > just embed 'x X sgr:0' into the ditroff output without any
> > surrounding motions.
> 
> Would it help to end the previous line with another `\c'?
> Is the additional space produced during troff formatting or is the 
> output parser or postprocessor involved?
> 
> Normally, an escape sequence should not produce any surrounding
> space.  So is this a bug, some old misfeature, or what else?

Any line ending with \c starts a partial line, inserting a node.
This can have some influence on the output.


    Werner