Hi Alex, At 2023-05-22T18:40:28+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I had a typo in a man(7) page where for some reason I slipped an .IP > in the wrong place. I had no warnings about that IP. Neither > groff(1) nor mandoc(1) complained about it. And BTW, mandoc(1)'s > behavior seems the right one to me.
Long story short: I agree; please file a Savannah ticket. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff&func=additem Longer story: the issue is input of this form. > .PD 0 > .IP \[bu] 3 > fgh. > .IP > .PD > .SH jkl > zxc. I would not expect any man(7) formatter to warn about this. The empty paragraph body is not inherently erroneous. Consider a situation where we're setting tagged paragraphs for the sake of their tags alone. ---begin snip--- .SH Monsters In this game reminiscent of .MR rogue 6 , you can expect to encounter the following opponents in increasing order of menace. . .PD 0 \" possible future: `.LS` .IP B .IP T .IP D .PD \" possible future: `.LE` .SH Treasure ---end snip--- While I have proposed that `TP` be used for tags of indexable or semantic import, and `IP` for other sorts like bullets and list enumerators, whether it would be better to use `TP` for this application has no bearing here in my view. I'll have a look at fixing this for groff-next--maybe in 1.23.1 point release if the solution turns out to be low impact. Regards, Branden
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