Hi, replying to myself because i figured out the remaining question, such that others don't need to waste their time explaining...
Ingo Schwarze wrote on Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 03:53:48PM +0200: > I'm not yet quite sure what is going on in groff_man(7). My impression > right now is that by default, for example with > > groff -man -Tascii man/groff.7.man > > it no longer prints three blank lines before the beginning of the > "Name" section and before the page footer line. That's https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60653 commit 2278d6ed67c8d85b021c9db35ecb2c44f5d19ae6. So yes, it is deliberate. Branden has been doing so much work lately (which is very good, thank you for doing all that work) that i didn't quite keep up with it (which is not that good, sorry about that). > I actually like > that change and i am quite willing to adjust mandoc to do the same > because these additional two times two blank lines, IMHO, served > little purpose in terminal output and mostly wasted screen real > estate. Besides, i like making mdoc(7) and man(7) style more similar > to each other. > > But i'd like to confirm this is an intentional change before > picking it up for mandoc(1), too. I'll do the same in mandoc soon. Yours, Ingo
