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[Groff] empty line before .TH in man page produces sometimes an empty pa


From: Bernd Warken
Subject: [Groff] empty line before .TH in man page produces sometimes an empty page
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:53:12 +0200

Consider the followin short man page:

$ cat manpage.1
\" comment
.TH MANPAGE 1 "2006 Oct 1" "manpage"
.SH NAME
manpage \- test man page

This has a bug: the first line (with the comment) should start with a dot.
For example, the man page bash.1 has this bug.

Without the dot, this line produces an empty space in the output.  In text
or html output, this space is a single empty line, ok.

But in ps or dvi output, a whole empty page is created.  I consider this a
bug in ps and dvi mode.

If you write some text before the .TH request this text is written in a
single line even in ps or dvi output.  But as soon as you add a line that is
empty or has only spaces or a comment a whole empty page is created
in ps or dvi mode.

Bernd Warken

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