Re: [Groff] Re: new grotty format

[Bernd Warken]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:02:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> putting \X'sgr:0'\c in man.local appears to cause an extra couple of
> line breaks just after the first page header, which is quite noticeable;
> I haven't been able to find a piece of troff that will just embed 'x X
> sgr:0' into the ditroff output without any surrounding motions.

Would it help to end the previous line with another `\c'?
Is the additional space produced during troff formatting or is the 
output parser or postprocessor involved?

Normally, an escape sequence should not produce any surrounding space.
So is this a bug, some old misfeature, or what else?

Bernd Warken