Follow-up Comment #10, bug #67380 (group groff):

[comment #8 comment #8:]
> If you're using `ab` to troubleshoot a document
> *with _groff_*, break the line (by any means) first.

Agree.

> [Another set of experiments later...]
> 
> This appears to be what `fl` is for!

With groff having a different buffering system than other roffs, I suppose it
makes sense that "fl" behaves differently.

> we could change "`fl" to go ahead and write the document preamble.

Sure, but is there any real-world benefit to that?  As the manual says, .fl
was designed for interactive nroffing, which already mostly doesn't work in
groff anyway.


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