On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 03:29:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:18:44PM +0200, David Schmitt wrote:
> > Sorry for the meager explanation, but I thought it was obvious when > > viewing the manpages. Matrices are displayed with _huge_ vertical space: > Bizarrely, I can't reproduce this with man but can when I run the exact > same commands executed by man by hand. I'm now confused and will try to > figure out what on earth's going on. By default, man passes the -s option to pager, which (normally) squeezes multiple blank lines into one. This is (generally) the Right Thing(tm). David: you might want to look into what's wrong with your pager (check the $PAGER env variable and the /etc/alternatives/pager link), and stick to something that supports -s. Colin: you might want to try postscript output (man -Tps) and see how the page looks that way; as far as I'm concerned, that's the real test of a man page. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku
