In the beginning header layout varied from edition to edition. The
first edition was printed one-sided with the date left and title
right. Then came two-sided printing with a double title, good for
printing either recto or verso. Some editions, but not all, displayed
the edition number in the cente
* On 2023 22 Jul 14:22 -0500, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> The text "SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR" is output twice in the header,
> is once not enough and why? (Is this necessary(?))
On a terminal or PDF form read on a monitor, once is certainly enough.
My limited understanding of manual pages
At 2023-07-22T19:21:39+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> The text "SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR" is output twice in the header,
> is once not enough and why? (Is this necessary(?))
It's tradition. See attachment.
Also see groff's PROBLEMS file.
* I don't like the page headers and footers p
On 7/22/23, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> The text "SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR" is output twice in the header,
You've been seeing this for decades and have never noticed it, because
most Unix commands are short and the repetition is unobtrusive. Try
"man ls", "man grep", "man ssh", "man ascii"
Example from "sensible-terminal(1)":
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.TH SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR 1 "28 Aug 2022" "Debian"
.SH NAME
sensible-terminal-emulator \- sensible terminal emulator
-.-.
With "/usr/bin/man --version": man 2.11.2
Output from "env MANWIDTH=80 /usr/bin/man -l example":
grotty::():9: w
