Re: [PATCH] minor fixes to Texinfo manual (and AT&T troff behavior)

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] minor fixes to Texinfo manual (and AT&T troff behavior)
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Hi Dave,

At 2026-08-02T18:52:52-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 6:05=E2=80=AFPM G. Branden Robinson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Would you like to commit this yourself?
>=20
> Thanks, I'll request you do it this time: while I'm sure the git
> machinery isn't rocket science, it's a learning curve I don't have the
> bandwidth to take on at the moment.

No worries.

> > So that final esoteric paragraph might be a specialized case of a
> > more general and recent claim I make earlier in the same section.
> >
> > >>    GNU 'troff' does not emit output if it has nothing to format.
>=20
> That sentence seems to want a qualifying adverb, based on
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68502 -- perhaps "does not necessarily
> emit output."  This is still a contrast to AT&T troff, which (absent
> an error condition) always emits output.

I don't think it does.

GNU troff, the formatter, _doesn't_ emit output in such cases.

But any file that the formatter loads, from a macro package to the
troffrc to the input, can cause output to start.

mom(7) causes output to start.  That's what #68502 is all about.

Regards,
Branden

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