'^\}$' is changed to a space character
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-30 18:18:38
This is shown with (my version of test-groff) test-groff -man -t -ww -b -z man7/vdso.7 troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':146 troff:man7/vdso.7:146: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':196 troff:man7/vdso.7:196: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':225 troff:man7/vdso.7:225: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':261 troff:man7/vdso.7:261: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':279 troff:man7/vdso.7:279: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':307 troff:man7/vdso.7:307: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':369 troff:man7/vdso.7:369: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':411 troff:man7/vdso.7:411: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':451 troff:man7/vdso.7:451: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':472 troff:man7/vdso.7:472: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':490 troff:man7/vdso.7:490: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':508 troff:man7/vdso.7:508: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':526 troff:man7/vdso.7:526: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':551 troff:man7/vdso.7:551: warning: trailing space in the line troff: backtrace: file 'man7/vdso.7':570 troff:man7/vdso.7:570: warning: trailing space in the line This result in an empty line. Not all '^\}' lines are reported. grep -n -e '^\\\}$' 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.