From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason Subject: [patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty" Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20120518174722.GA22613@rhi.hi.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Package: manpages Version: 3.40 Severity: minor Tags: patch From "man ..." ("nroff ..."): grotty: ():1763: character above first line discarded grotty: ():2688: character above first line discarded grotty: ():3286: character above first line discarded "man" ("nroff") needs a long page to avoid (imaginary) page breaks for the long tables. The culprit is "Dl 0 -xxxx" (vertical line) where "xxxx" is one line (40 nroff units) too long. Or there is a bug in "grotty". "nroff" or "tbl" makes an empty line where a page break is. Patch: --- suffixes.7 2012-04-26 22:58:40.000000000 +0000 +++ suffixes.7.new 2012-05-18 01:22:54.000000000 +0000 @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ .\" FIXME, mtk, May 2007: rendering this page yields the error: .\" grotty:suffixes.7:1725: character above first line discarded .\" +.\" "nroff" ("man") (or "tbl") needs a long page to avoid warnings +.\" from "grotty" (at imagined page breaks). Bug in grotty? +.if n .pl 1000v .TH SUFFIXES 7 2000-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME suffixes \- list of file suffixes -- Bjarni I. Gislason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html