Re: [Groff] groff -mm output something I don't expect

[Mike Bianchi]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:58:50AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > I ``troff'' a simple file, hello.mm whose content is:
> > 
> > .\" hello.mm
> > Hello World!
> > 
> > with the command line:
> > 
> > $ /usr/local/bin/groff -mm hello.mm > hello.ps
> > 
> > and opened it with ``evince'', then I found there are two short bars
> > in topleft and topright corners of the page.
> 
> This must be a problem with evince then.  Here is the PS output of
> your document (omitting the preamble) as processed with the current
> CVS version of groff (and I doubt that this has changed recently):
> 
>   /F0 10/address@hidden SF
>   2.5(-1-)277.006 48 S
>   (Hello W)69.336 96 Q
>   (orld!) -.8 E
>   0 Cg
>   EP
> 
> As you can see, no bars are created.  Maybe those bars indicate the
> left and right side of the paper, similar to the flashing lines in gv?

Is it possible the "two short bars" are the   - 1 -  (meaning page 1) that
mm places as the Page Header?

-- 
 Mike Bianchi