Hi Alex! At 2022-07-29T17:26:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 7/29/22 15:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I don't think you're abusing it but you are employing some heavy > > machinery that brings some limitations with it. The worst from my > > perspective is that using tbl(1) in man pages limits your > > flexibility in terms of line length. Terminal windows can be all > > kinds of crazy sizes. > > Oh, didn't the Mesopotamians already know about the standard tablet > size of 80x24? :D > > "Thou shalt set your tablet size to 80x24 or larger, but never > smaller; or thou shalt not report a bug if the formatting becomes > unreadable. Thou shalt not assume your neighbor has a tablet wider > than 80 characters, so thou shalt not write past it." > > I think that's what the famous tablets said.
Mmm, so it would be nice to overcome that line intersection problem in
grotty(1). Maybe for groff 1.24...
> Sure; compare:
>
>
> u64 mode; /* Mode for
> O_{CREAT,TMPFILE}
> */
>
> u64 mode; /* Mode for
> O_{CREAT,TMPFILE}
> */
Ah, you want the comments to wrap extra-attractively. Let me counter by
suggesting that most of the time, the comments should fit on the same
ouput line anyway.
> > I'm really looking forward to killing off another application of
> > `PD`.
>
> Ok. T think I'll remove .PD, and leave the extra blank line until .TS
> is fixed. A blank line will not hurt too much.
The fix should be in my next push; I merely got caught in a yak shave
called groff_mm(7).
Regards,
Branden
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