X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/halibut/blobdiff_plain/126239bf9360dc2c08c6a206c1eadd0f1d636cdd..0e60e7fec6be3a96f978d3723b9b671bf037f6a0:/input.c

diff --git a/input.c b/input.c
index 493449c..dc44675 100644
--- a/input.c
+++ b/input.c
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ static void read_file(paragraph ***ret, input *in, indexdata *idx,
 	    stack_style = 2,	       /* \e, \c, \cw */
 	    stack_idx = 4,	       /* \I, \i, \ii */
 	    stack_hyper = 8,	       /* \W */
-	    stack_quote = 16,	       /* \q */
+	    stack_quote = 16	       /* \q */
 	} type;
 	word **whptr;		       /* to restore from \u alternatives */
 	word **idximplicit;	       /* to restore from \u alternatives */
@@ -1529,7 +1529,17 @@ static void read_file(paragraph ***ret, input *in, indexdata *idx,
 	}
 	stk_free(parsestk);
 	prev_para_type = par.type;
-	addpara(par, ret);
+	/*
+	 * Before we add the paragraph to the output list, we
+	 * should check that there was any text in it at all; there
+	 * might not be if (for example) the paragraph contained
+	 * nothing but an unrecognised command sequence, and if we
+	 * put an empty paragraph on the list it may confuse the
+	 * back ends later on.
+	 */
+	if (par.words) {
+	    addpara(par, ret);
+	}
 	if (t.type == tok_eof)
 	    already = TRUE;
     }