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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 newsyslog.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 May 1997 14:31:34 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 01:26:17 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> As Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > Can someone take a look at the paragraph I added in newsyslog.8 ?
> > It's skipping a line just above the first mention of
> > path_to_pid_file, and I can't figure out why :(
> 
> You mean the empty line above it?  That's just a ``page break'',
> something you gotta live with (or fix nroff or the -mdoc macros, i
> suppose).  Even nroff includes one blank line where it think a new
> `page' starts.
> 
> It's probably a bug in -mdoc.  You can see the page break at exact the
> same location (line 65) e.g. in the description of the -k option to
> ls(1), while (just to pick another random example) the man page of
> sh(1) doesn't experience this effect.

This makes me feel beter - a bit.

Surely this sort of stuff should be done in a "mangle doc | pr" sort
of way, so that the user can have control over the "pr" bit.

Does the groff -man bit do the "I know what a page is" bit ?  If
so, isn't this in the wrong place ?  Maybe the "man" pipeline
should be something like

  tbl | groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -man | col | pr $PRARGS | $PAGER

where the pr bit is new.....

> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

-- 
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      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....