[bug #65049] [troff] does the end of input cause a break?

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65049>

                 Summary: [troff] does the end of input cause a break?
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Tue 19 Dec 2023 02:27:11 PM UTC
                Category: Core
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Tue 19 Dec 2023 02:27:11 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Our Texinfo manual and roff(7) claim:

"GNU 'troff' interprets the end of input as a break."

But this turns out not to be true.


$ cat ATTIC/kiss-foot.tr
.\" U.S. letter paper assumed
.sp 65v
Hello!


This produces a ONE page PostScript document with "Hello!"'s text
baseline sitting at the very boundary of the paper.  And there is no blank
second page.

Frustratingly, it _does_ produce 2 pages in _nroff_ mode.  That might be a
code bug.

Investigate.







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