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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32j4rxtwivo2jafhq7fmtz4rk4kyhmv4ldzoq64757ercbiwxb@zfgmna4wiuvs> On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 08:49:38AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Bjarni. > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 10:36:07PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > A patch is superfluous > > > > sed -e '/^\\\}$/ {s/^/./}' > > This would also work; thanks! After all, what I need is something I can > run to get the page changed. > > On the other hand, I think I prefer Branden's approach, which entirely > eliminates the low-level roff(7) there. What do you think? > > I did not get a copy of Branden's e-mail. I suggest to get your own knowledge of the troff language, http://troff.org/54.pdf so that you are not addicted to the opinions of others.