[bug #53790] [PATCH] man pages: Avoid repetition of long strings (paths)

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #53790 (project groff):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I'm rejecting this one because I think having full paths in the man pages is
useful.

The page-local .Tp macros were ugly; however, I got rid of them back in June
with a commit specific to that purpose:


commit 0013a2e010a26f242925b33f8e66be83ebb23ef1
Author: G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jun 18 01:30:23 2018 -0400

    man pages: Stop using .TP for ersatz tables.
    
    Remove gratuitous calculated indent setting and page-local macro ("Tp")
    often used to facilitate it.  The pages that use this trick do it as a
    way to simulate a 2-column table.
    
    This is a generalization of the fix to Savannah #53797, in which Bjarni
    Ingli Gislason noted one instance in refer(1).
    
    Impact on nroff output with 80 columns:
    
    man/groff_font.5:
    * All 3 items in the list of additional font file commands are
      consistently rendered with a hanging tag (before, none were).
    
    src/preproc/eqn/eqn.1:
    * Use a 2-column tbl(1) table to describe component types.  (Looks good
      in -Tpdf as well.)  I also recast some wording that confused me, after
      consulting src/preproc/eqn/text.cpp to check my understanding.
    
    src/preproc/refer/refer.1:
    * All items in the list of refer commends now have a hanging tag (some
      did before, but the overall indent was much farther to the right).
    * File paragraphs in the FILES section now have mixed hangs.
    
    src/roff/troff/troff.1:
    * Flag paragraphs in the OPTIONS section how have mixed hangs.
    
    src/utils/indxbib/indxbib.1:
    src/utils/lkbib/lkbib.1:
    src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1:
    * File paragraphs in the FILES section now have mixed hangs.
    
    man/groff_font.5:
    src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.1:
    src/devices/grops/grops.1:
    src/preproc/grn/grn.1:
    src/preproc/pic/pic.1:
    src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.1:
    * No visible impact.
    
    Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden>


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