On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:58:55AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > 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).
Good call, I'd forgotten about that. > 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. There's almost certainly nothing wrong with his pager. man only sets -s for its default pager, not for random stuff in the $PAGER variable (which I had unset). I should add -s to the default $LESS set by man, I think. However, there is still a clear bug in eqn's output, forgetting about the pager issues. I don't yet know whether it's a bug in the input or in the output. > 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. It's not quite as bad, but the matrix could easily be squeezed onto the first page and isn't, so there's probably a spacing issue there, and the brackets around the matrix are set too high. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
