On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave wrote: > > > Attached is a patch to man.conf, providing a (hacked) solution > > allowing MANWIDTH to work (here at least). Only intended as a short > > term fixup for those who need it :). Will need some work if you want > > it to cope with term resizing. > > > > Thanks to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2003-03/msg00038.html > > > -NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null > > +NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc -rLL=`echo $MANWIDTH`n -rLT=`echo > > $MANWIDTH`n 2>/dev/null > > Just a little more info about how debian does this, in case someone > wants to flesh this out for it to do "the right thing". > [snip] > I think they must be using their own patched version of man which adds > all of the above functionality. "man --version" says "man, version > 2.4.2, 2003-09-20". It has no man.conf that I can find.
As I said in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00941.html>, the problem is not with man, but with groff. With MANWIDTH=130, Cygwin's man dutifully echoes '.ll 11.7i', which the nroff process promptly ignores. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
