[bug #62826] [PATCH] [tmac] options "-mandoc" and '-C' are not compatible

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #62826 (group groff):

[comment #1 comment #1:]
> .\" Due to a bug in GNU troff it necessary to have a no-op line between
> .\" '.do' and '\*'.

This is bug #44714.

> +.  do ie \\n[.cp] \{\
> +.    do als TH reload-man
> +.    hw\"DO NOT REMOVE the line, see an earlier comment about a bug
> +\\*(Dd\\

The current andoc.tmac demonstrates that an empty control line is sufficient
to work around #44714.  A control line with only a comment also works.  Using
a bare .hw as a no-op, although it acts as one, unnecessarily complicates the
code and confuses readers.


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