On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy Englebert,
A newline character in roff markup is significant (unlike in, e.g.,
HTML), so it's important to only have newlines where they are
necessary for the effect desired when the markup is rendered.
The current manpage writer produces roff output with many extraneous
newline characters. This results in large stretches of unwanted
whitespace in the rendered man page.
The attached patch against current VCS addresses this in the test
input, but it may need to be modified in response to other tests.
i am still at it, but viewing with man i seldom see a difference
with/without your patch. except in one document is saw paragraphs
flowwing together when your patch was applied.
so i think i will have to do it stepwise, with a test for each change
this will make manpage-writer more stable too.
cheers
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