Re: [Groff] how not to number the cover page? and not to show page number on the front page?

[Anton Shepelev]

Anton Shterenlikht:

> Now  that  I  sorted out my empty lines, I get the
> cover page with no number.
>
> I tried groff -n option, but it  seems  to  change
> the  number  of  only the cover page, which is not
> shown anyway. The numbers of other pages are unaf-
> fected.  Is this the expected behaviour?

mm  uses  its  own page number register which is not
affected by this option, but m.tmac can be  modified
to take it into account.  Just replace the line

     .nr P 0

with

     .nr P \n[.pn]-1

This change is a good candidate for a patch.

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