On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 05:55:53AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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?

I see with groff that works after the .TH line, but is ignored with Solaris 10.
Also, comparisons don't appear to work, e.g,
        .if n .l > 70

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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