On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 04:37:03PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > > That's my result from the teletype. And xterm confirms the same > > pretty much > > As I said elsewhere, give us an example which doesn't work, the command > you run, and the result on the teletype and xterm. > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > >
How am I supposed to give you an example? gdb nroff? I can confirm that -mandoc or -man for that matter on Alpine Linux along with groff 1.22 shoves the blank page right in the beginning If in doubt, set up a project, take your time, no one's rushing you, and install Alpine stable and see for yourself :) It's interesting The only version that works without an extra blank page, not extra really, since it shoves it up in the beginning, is GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc4.19-96b92 so far which its compilation finally went through after installing netpbm But I'm not very keen on the latter, and for a good reason, but heck, CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-filename.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-lineno.o CC src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-localcharset.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-macropath.o CC src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-matherr.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-maxfilename.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-maxpathname.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-mksdir.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-nametoindex.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-paper.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-prime.o CC src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-progname.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-ptable.o CC src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-quotearg.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-relocate.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-searchpath.o CC src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-spawnvp.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-string.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-strsave.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-symbol.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-tmpfile.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-tmpname.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-unicode.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-uniglyph.o CXX src/libs/libgroff/libgroff_a-uniuni.o CC lib/libgnu_a-free.o CC lib/libgnu_a-localcharset.o CC lib/libgnu_a-math.o CC lib/libgnu_a-printf-frexp.o CC lib/libgnu_a-printf-frexpl.o CC lib/libgnu_a-unistd.o CC lib/uniwidth/libgnu_a-width.o GEN src/libs/libgroff/version.cpp CC lib/libgnu_a-wctype-h.o CC lib/libgnu_a-xsize.o CC lib/asnprintf.o CC lib/printf-args.o CC lib/printf-parse.o CC lib/vasnprintf.o CXX src/devices/grohtml/post-html.o CXX src/devices/grohtml/html-table.o CXX src/devices/grohtml/html-text.o CXX src/devices/grohtml/output.o CXX src/devices/grolbp/lbp.o CXX src/devices/grolj4/lj4.o CXX src/devices/grops/ps.o CXX src/devices/grops/psrm.o CXX src/devices/grotty/tty.o CXX src/preproc/html/pre-html.o CXX src/preproc/html/pushback.o CXX src/preproc/preconv/preconv-preconv.o CXX src/roff/groff/groff.o CC src/roff/groff/pipeline.o CXX src/utils/addftinfo/addftinfo.o CXX src/utils/addftinfo/guess.o CXX src/utils/hpftodit/hpftodit.o CXX src/utils/hpftodit/hpuni.o CXX src/utils/lkbib/lkbib.o CXX src/libs/libbib/common.o CXX src/libs/libbib/index.o CXX src/libs/libbib/linear.o CXX src/libs/libbib/search.o CC src/libs/libbib/map.o CC src/utils/pfbtops/pfbtops.o CXX src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.o CXX src/preproc/eqn/eqn-main.o CXX src/preproc/eqn/eqn-lex.o CXX src/preproc/eqn/eqn-box.o CXX src/preproc/eqn/eqn-limit.o CXX 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src/roff/troff/env.o CXX src/roff/troff/input.o CXX src/roff/troff/mtsm.o CXX src/roff/troff/node.o CXX src/roff/troff/number.o CXX src/roff/troff/reg.o CXX src/utils/indxbib/indxbib.o CC src/utils/indxbib/signal.o CXX src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.o GEN eqn2graph GEN gdiffmk GEN glilypond GEN gperl GEN gpinyin GEN src/roff/troff/majorminor.cpp GEN grap2graph GEN mmroff GEN pdfroff GEN pic2graph GEN gropdf GEN pdfmom GEN grog GEN chem GEN neqn GEN nroff GEN contrib/chem/chem.1 GEN contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.1 GEN contrib/gdiffmk/gdiffmk.1 GEN contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1 GEN contrib/gperl/gperl.1 GEN contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1 GEN contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.1 GEN contrib/mm/mmroff.1 GEN contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.1 GEN contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.1 GEN src/devices/grodvi/grodvi.1 GEN src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.1 GEN src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1 GEN src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1 GEN src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.1 GEN src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom.1 GEN src/devices/grops/grops.1 GEN 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