On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 04:53:38AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 08:53:02PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2025-10-26T00:43:19+0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > >   + correct a recent change to curs_termino.3x, along with formatting
> > >     fixes for manpages.
> > 
> > This change regresses formatting on DWB 3.3, Plan 9, and Solaris 10
> > troffs, causing some synopsis lines to overset (overrun the right
> > margin).  That's because those formatters use a line length of 65n in
> > nroff mode, not 78-80n as Heirloom Doctools troff and groff (for their
> > man(7) packages), and mandoc(1) do.
> 
> so... can we set the line-length for those in a directive?

For instance, would
        .if n .ll 70

work with those older versions, or would (putting it before .TH for instance)
be ignored?

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

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