Hi Alex, At 2024-04-14T14:42:51+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 02:32:25PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > groff_man(7): > > > -rC1 Number output pages consecutively, in strictly increasing > > > sequence, rather than resetting the page number to 1 (or > > > the value of register P) with each new man document. > > > > Hmmmm. Maybe I should follow v7's tradition and restart the page > > number at each TH. Let's call it an accidental improvement, and not > > a regression. :) > > > > Although it would be interesting to learn when/why this changed. > > It seems to have been here: [...] > - | troff -Tpdf -dPDF.EXPORT=1 -dLABEL.REFS=1 -dpaper=a4 \ > - -M"$(dirname "$0")" -mandoc -manmark -rC1 -rCHECKSTYLE=3 \ > - 2>&1 >/dev/null \ > - | LC_ALL=C grep '^\. *ds '; > - > + cat "$(dirname "$0")"/LMBfront.roff; > + cat "$(dirname "$0")"/an.tmac; > "$(dirname "$0")"/prepare.pl "$1"; I don't think there's one right choice here. I _would_ make sure that the PDF page numbering (visible in the PDF viewer's outline pane) matches that used by the document. To do otherwise will frustrate users. Regards, Branden
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