[bug #59826] [ms] does not put date in center footer in nroff mode as AT&T ms does

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: [ms] does not put date in center footer in nroff
mode as AT&T ms does
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Tue 05 Jan 2021 05:54:07 AM UTC
                Category: Macro - ms
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Minor but highly visible difference in AT&T/groff ms behaviors.

Lesk 1978-11-13 says:

"Date.  By default, documents produced on computer terminals have the date at
the bottom of each page; documents produced on the typesetter don't."

Heirloom Doctools nroff+ms produce a date in the footer for the following
simple document; `groff -Tutf8 -ms` does not.


.PP
Example document.


Strictly, even the text line is not necessary to reproduce this behavior.




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