[bug #60624] [man] unnecessarily breaks short TP tag at page boundary

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60624>

                 Summary: [man] unnecessarily breaks short TP tag at page
boundary
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Mon 17 May 2021 10:48:22 PM UTC
                Category: Macro - man
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Present in groff 1.22.4 and Git HEAD.

Input:

.\" groff -man -rcR=0
.TH foo 1 2021-05-18 "groff test suite"
.SH Name
foo \- frobnicate a thingamajig
.rs \" force spacing on
.sp 50
.TP
3
7th edition


Output:

$ groff -Tutf8 -man -rcR=0 EXPERIMENTS/bad-TP-break.man | cat -s

foo(1)                      General Commands Manual                    
foo(1)

Name
       foo - frobnicate a thingamajig

       3

groff test suite                  2021‐05‐18                              
  1

foo(1)                      General Commands Manual                    
foo(1)

              7th edition

groff test suite                  2021‐05‐18                              
  2






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