Re: [Groff] add extra footer with running page numbers

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:

> > >   zcat /usr/share/man/man8/*.gz |
> > >     groff -Tps -t -man-old -rC1 >acro.ps            
> > 
> > This does finish and they are numbered but now the formatting
> > is broken.  Text all dumped to page without any section
> > headers, missing content, unusable.
> 
> Do all the manpages use the classical "man" markup, or do they
> use the "doc" macros?  If the latter, then "an-old.tmac" is
> not the correct package to load, and "doc.tmac" must be used.
> Deciding which one to load is exactly what "andoc.tmac" (via
> "an.tmac") was supposed to do (but the implemented solution
> was perhaps not quite optimal).

It is a mix. Using -mdoc I get warnings like:

Not a \-mdoc command: .LP (#2959)
Not a \-mdoc command: .SH (#2972)
mdoc warning: Empty input line #2973

I fyou want I can send you a small tarball with nine manpages in it that 
show the problem.