hi all, iff i remember correctly you may use '\"tep (t for tbl e for eqn p for pic etc) in the first line to invoke the various precompilers.
re, wh Clarke Echols wrote: > > ABSOLUTELY NO LINES, other than genuine troff/groff comment lines > should appear in a man page file before the .TH line. You do *not* > want troff/groff interpreting *anything* before it encounters the > .TH macro call because .TH sets up page boundaries, end-of-page > traps, and a bunch of other stuff that you want fully established > and settled before you start interpreting text. This has been the > case for decades. > > In a source-code (SCCS) or revision (RCS) control environment, the > first line in the file starts with .\" $Header: [I think -- it's > been many years since I did this stuff back in 1989-1992]. The > RCS or SCCS software then fills in the line with date, revision > version number, etc., but by making it a comment, it keeps the > revision information invisible to troff/groff. > > Any line before .TH that is not a comment will create a break in > no-fill mode, and in fill mode will create a non-empty buffer prior > to the .TH line, causing unpredictable behavior, depending on various > environment/status conditions. > > Clarke > > > Bernd Warken wrote: >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Groff mailing list > Groff@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff > > _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
