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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