On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 7:22 PM Tim via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Greg:
> > > This is by no means an issue.
> > > The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man,
> > > formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn.
> > > Part of the formatting is making intervals between the words on a line
> > > more or less equal by adding/removing blanks where deemed appropriate.
>
> Stephen Morris:
> > But why is it doing only for my text and nothing else in the file,
> > and why only in the first 3 or 4 words in a line and not the rest?
> > Could there be an issue that the lines I've typed in are longer than
> > the other lines in the file?
>
> Perhaps if I re-word what Greg said...
>
> Usually man pages are wrapped and "justified" so that each line of text
> is the same length (just under the current width of the viewing
> window). It does the justifying by adding extra spaces between some
> words, and hyphenating others.
>
> Does that describe what you're seeing?
>
> Personally, I dislike this. While it may make a block of text look
> neater, it makes it more difficult to read.
From the man(7) man page:
Where the SEE ALSO list contains many long manual page
names, to improve the visual result of the output, it may
be useful to employ the .ad l (don't right justify) and
.nh (don't hyphenate) directives...
Jeff
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