Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 4 authors, 2025-10-07

'^\}$' is changed to a space character

From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-30 18:18:38

  This is shown with (my version of test-groff)

test-groff -man -t -ww -b -z man7/vdso.7

troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':146
troff:man7/vdso.7:146: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':196
troff:man7/vdso.7:196: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':225
troff:man7/vdso.7:225: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':261
troff:man7/vdso.7:261: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':279
troff:man7/vdso.7:279: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':307
troff:man7/vdso.7:307: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':369
troff:man7/vdso.7:369: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':411
troff:man7/vdso.7:411: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':451
troff:man7/vdso.7:451: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':472
troff:man7/vdso.7:472: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':490
troff:man7/vdso.7:490: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':508
troff:man7/vdso.7:508: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':526
troff:man7/vdso.7:526: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':551
troff:man7/vdso.7:551: warning: trailing space in the line
troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':570
troff:man7/vdso.7:570: warning: trailing space in the line

  This result in an empty line.

  Not all '^\}' lines are reported.

  grep -n -e '^\\\}$' shows all lines.

  Visible change is two empty lines after a table instead of a single line.

  A full stop should be used in front of '\}' to make the line a control
line.

  This also the case in some other files.
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