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Re: Represent several consecutive newlines


From: Alejandro Colomar
Subject: Re: Represent several consecutive newlines
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 23:37:52 +0200
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Hi Branden,

On 5/9/22 22:36, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex,

At 2022-05-09T18:36:44+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
It's not working for me.  I have GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc1.2366-0328.

I think our messages crossed in the ether.  I suspect you're seeing
man-db man(1)'s "squeezing" of blank lines as I mentioned in my previous
message
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-05/msg00019.html>.

Yup, in fact, by reading your other email, I thought you had already read mine :)


Try running "nroff -man" instead of "man -l" directly on the man page
source document, and see if the problem persists.  If you want the
output paged, also pipe it through "less -R".

I confirm the problem is man(1).

Regards,
Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/



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