From keith.d.marsh...@ntlworld.com Thu Aug 23 13:28:51 2012
On 22/08/12 23:49, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Thank you. Here's a small document:
>
> \" process with mm
I'm not an mm user, but surely this is wrong? It introduces a blank
input line *before*...
> .PGNH
> .PF "''\*(DT''"
> .COVER
...which, according to the groff_mm manpage, is not allowed. If you
introduce that initial comment correctly, as
.\" process with mm
(note the introductory dot), then the header will be appropriately
omitted on the cover page.
I did some more reading in the various groff-related man
pages and see that you are right. For example, I see
that I broke all 3 of these rules (from roff(7)):
o Never include empty or blank lines in a roff document. Instead, use
the empty request (a line consisting of a dot only) or a line comment
.\" if a structuring element is needed.
o Never start a line with whitespace because this can lead to unexpect-
ed behavior. Indented paragraphs can be constructed in a controlled
way by roff requests.
o Start each sentence on a line of its own, for the spacing after a dot
is handled differently depending on whether it terminates an abbrevi-
ation or a sentence. To distinguish both cases, do a line break af-
ter each sentence.
I'm new to troff, having used latex for the last 10 years.
In latex none of the above 3 rules are relevant, so
it's easy to make these mistakes.
However, the next page will still be number
2, and I don't know how to fix that, (inserting .pn requests doesn't
seem to have the desired effect).
That is solved by (thanks to Anton Shepelev <anton....@gmail.com>)
.hd@set-page -1
Many thanks
Anton
