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Re: [Groff] Spurious whitelines
From: |
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Spurious whitelines |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:22:51 +0100 |
-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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