Consider the followin short man page: $ cat manpage.1 \" comment .TH MANPAGE 1 "2006 Oct 1" "manpage" .SH NAME manpage \- test man page
This has a bug: the first line (with the comment) should start with a dot. For example, the man page bash.1 has this bug. Without the dot, this line produces an empty space in the output. In text or html output, this space is a single empty line, ok. But in ps or dvi output, a whole empty page is created. I consider this a bug in ps and dvi mode. If you write some text before the .TH request this text is written in a single line even in ps or dvi output. But as soon as you add a line that is empty or has only spaces or a comment a whole empty page is created in ps or dvi mode. Bernd Warken _______________________________________________________________________ Viren-Scan für Ihren PC! Jetzt für jeden. Sofort, online und kostenlos. Gleich testen! http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/freescan/?mc=022222 _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
