URL:
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Summary: [ms] does not put date in center footer in nroff
mode as AT&T ms does
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Tue 05 Jan 2021 05:54:07 AM UTC
Category: Macro - ms
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Minor but highly visible difference in AT&T/groff ms behaviors.
Lesk 1978-11-13 says:
"Date. By default, documents produced on computer terminals have the date at
the bottom of each page; documents produced on the typesetter don't."
Heirloom Doctools nroff+ms produce a date in the footer for the following
simple document; `groff -Tutf8 -ms` does not.
.PP
Example document.
Strictly, even the text line is not necessary to reproduce this behavior.
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