On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:38:20PM +0000, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Do use the bug tracking system. In the case of printcap(5), a bug > > should be filed against the three packages that contain it (lpr, > > lprng, lpr-ppd), and I can't find anything from you against any of > > those packages, although I was reading quickly so I could have missed > > it. > > I checked myself last night, and don't see anything. My concern was > whether or not I should post my revised manpage to the bugtracking > system itself.
Absolutely! > > Probably depends on which package you're looking at. The version in > > lpr uses mdoc's .Bl request to construct a list, and looks OK. > > lprng. I don't use groff or the man macros enough to know what the tag > is, I suspect it's ".nf", for 'no format'. More likely the tbl macros > should be used. Ugh, yes, that's horrible formatting. '.nf' means "no-fill mode", but it has the effect you're thinking of. Make sure you add this line to the top of the file to let man know that it should be using tbl: '\" t .nf definitely shouldn't be used for lazy attempts at tables like that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
