Hi,
Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote on Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:05:48PM +0200:
> Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes:
>> The mdoc(7) manpage says about .Bl that
>>
>> The -width and -offset arguments accept scaling widths
>> as described in roff(7) or use the length of the given string.
>>
>> The words "width" or "offset" do not appear anywhere in roff(7).
> You're looking at the roff(7) manpage that comes with groff.
I consider that a bug in man.conf(5), so I moved the thread to tech@
and proposed a patch there, watch out for
"Subject: man.conf(5) _subdir search order".
Please consider this thread closed in misc@, or at least,
if you must follow-up, make sure that you do not cross-post.
Yours,
Ingo
Index: man.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/man.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 man.conf
--- man.conf 11 Apr 2011 14:45:41 -0000 1.17
+++ man.conf 12 Jul 2013 15:25:14 -0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
_whatdb /usr/X11R6/man/whatis.db
# Subdirectories for paths ending in '/', IN SEARCH ORDER.
-_subdir cat1 man1 cat8 man8 cat6 man6 cat2 man2 cat3 man3 cat5
man5 cat7 man7 cat4 man4 cat9 man9 cat3p man3p cat3f man3f catn mann
+_subdir {cat,man}1 {cat,man}8 {cat,man}6 {cat,man}2 {cat,man}3
{cat,man}5 {cat,man}7 {cat,man}4 {cat,man}9 {cat,man}3p {cat,man}3f {cat,man}n
# Files typed by suffix and their commands.
# Note the order: .Z must come after .[1-9n].Z, or it will match first.
