Werner LEMBERG schrieb: >> i was playing with man pages and found by chance that empty lines >> before .TH seems to confuse groff. > > `Confuse'? I don't think so. > >> <code> >> ./" >> >> ./" >> >> ./" >> .TH The header >> >> .... >> </code> >> >> works fine (no warnings what so ever) but has am empty page in front >> and changes in page numbering are ignored. >> >> <code> >> ./" >> ./" >> ./" >> .TH The header >> >> .... >> </code> >> >> But this produces the desired output. Is is possible to have a >> warning, when accidentally empty lines in front are found? > > It's probably not worth the time to fix this. Note that you can > concatenate various man pages – in both man and mdoc formats, IIRC; > .TH then needs to start a new page. The result you are seeing is a > side effect of this. > >
I do not think there is anything to "fix", it is simply a question of helping users. Empty lines before .TH are most likely not what the user intended. *if* some can fix that easy (read: print a warning) someone should do. re, wh
