Re: [Groff] add extra footer with running page numbers

[Jeremy C. Reed]

Replying to two emails below:

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:

> > <standard input>:2885: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded
> > (probable infinite loop)
> 
> Uh!  That appears to be a bug in the way "-man" is being used
> (by sourcing andoc.tmac, which then again sources an-old.tmac
> in some bizarre fashion).  The following works for me:
> 
>   zcat /usr/share/man/man8/*.gz |
>     groff -Tps -t -man-old -rC1 >acro.ps            

This does finish and they are numbered but now the formatting is broken. 
Text all dumped to page without any section headers, missing content, 
unusable.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Hmm.  To analyze that I need the input data.  Can you send it to me
> offline, possibly reduced to the smallest set which causes the
> problem?

They are manpages from a NetBSD system. I was able to get it down to nine 
man pages. I will send a small tar ball to you off-list. 

tx:man0$ head -9 man8.all   | xargs cat | groff -Tps -t -man -rC1 > output.ps
<standard input>:2885: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded (probable 
infinite loop)