[Groff] footer macro

[Erich Hoffmann]

Hello.

There is something very simple I am not able to see, excuse me for this
trivial problem.

I wrote header and footer macros.  In a running text, when the page breaks,
it always leaves a single word as the last line.

I tried the tutorial examples of the Ossanna/Kernighan script,
copying them verbatim - - but the output remains:

-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- (page bottom) -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text-

(next page)

-text- -text- -text- -text- (page    top) -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-

If I insert page numbering, then it becomes:



-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- (page bottom) -text- -text- -text- -text-

                                 - % -

-text-

(next page)

-text- -text- -text- -text- (page    top) -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-
-text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text- -text-

The code burns down to this:

.de hd
'sp 1i
..
.de fo
'br
..
.wh 0 hd
.wh -1i fo
..

...and the output remains the same, no matter what I add or how I set
the page length with [.pl].


Well, I wrote footer macros before and before they always worked.
I have a newly installed Mandrake 9.2, the groff version is 1.19.
This shurely is a beginners question, please don't be annoyed.

Best,

Erich.