Hi Branden, > Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it > only _sometimes_ happens?
Two lines become three, disturbing parity. > - afmtodit [-ckmnsvx] [-a n] [-d desc_file] [-e enc_file] > - [-f internal_name] [-i n] [-o out_file] afm_file map_file > font > + afmtodit [-ckmnsx] [-a angle] [-d desc_file] [-e encoding_file] > + [-f internal_name] [-i n] [-o output_file] afm_file map_file > + font_name The extra spaces are moved from the right end of the line to the left: > - The whitespace between a command-line option and its argument is > op‐ > + afmtodit -v > + > + The whitespace between a command-line option and its argument is > op‐ > tional. This looks to me like nroff is alternating the added spaces between the left and right ends of the line. Kernighan and Plauger's excellent _Software Tools_ does this with its simple roff IIRC, and says it's the normal method to avoid `rivers' of space being perceived. https://amzn.to/2MrnLO5 -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
