URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67902>
Summary: [troff] sometimes a blank page is emitted after the
end of a document
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Fri 09 Jan 2026 09:03:30 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Rendering/Cosmetics
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 09 Jan 2026 09:03:30 PM UTC By: Anonymous
Doug McIlroy summed up the issue in one sentence: "Since day one, troff has
occasionally emitted a blank page at the end."
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2023-12/msg00030.html)
The thread after that discusses this further without reaching a conclusion
about a solution. Branden calls fixing this an "intrusive change" that "would
affect approximately all page transitions processed by the formatter."
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