Yeah I'm familiar with groff et al. I used to get this issue on old UNIX boxes but not seen it in any of the Linux distros I use daily (not Freebase). The othe

Yeah I'm familiar with groff et al. I used to get this issue on old UNIX boxes but not seen it in any of the Linux distros I use daily (not Freebase). The other thing worth trying is seeing whether your locals are set correctly and/or set the GROFF_TYPESETTER environment variable. Though this might only by GNU specific. Or just redirect the output (as suggested by the other reply) which is how I used to get around the issue on SunOS at least.