Re: [Groff] Spurious whitelines

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >> When I nroff -man (or nroff -mdoc) a manpage and view it, I get
> >> random whitelines where no-one would expect them.  I verified the
> >> mdoc mark-up of the pages involved and I am absolutely sure that
> >> it isn't a problem in the manpages themselves.
> 
> And all the output is correct except for this:
> 
>            endif         No            Yes       No
>            endsw         No            Yes       No
>            esac          No            No        Yes
>            eval          No            Yes       Yes
> 
> 
>            exec          No            Yes       Yes
>            exit          No            Yes       Yes
>            export        No            No        Yes
>            fc            No            No        Yes
>            fg            No            Yes       Yes
>            fi            No            No        Yes
> 
> 
> 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.

If you add, say, 200 `.It' lines to the table, you can see this more
clearly.

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.

BTW, the macro .Fx is not defined in groff's tmac.doc.  Additionally,
builtin.1 fails completely if called with -Tdvi...

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.


    Werner