Branden Robinson writes: > Yeah, and we all owe you a debt of thanks for that beautiful > ps manpage *you* wrote.
You try fighting with that *roff crap. I've seen two separate attempts to "fix" the man page. Both of them were not only ugly, but misleading as well. Spaces and line breaks ended up in inappropriate places, along with hyphens! Hyphen, dash, minus... they all look the same in every font I have. This symbol, whatever you call it, is damn significant on the command line. You might as well just delete the man page if you can't keep the hyphens and whitespace under control. Our man page macros make this bad tool worse, with nasty defaults that are really hard to fight. Take a look at Tru64 sometime, perhaps via Compaq's testdrive program over the Internet. Tru64 man pages don't look half as shitty as the Debian ones do.
