[bug #63958] [mdoc] decide how to set up hanging indent in Synopsis sections

[Thorsten Glaser]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #63958 (project groff):



(you can press ^Xe in a <textarea> in lynx,
 and it will spawn your $EDITOR on it; it’s
 okay for shorter things though)

The current continuation indent in gnroff in Debian sid
seems to be… the width of Nm plus one space. Ingenious.
(We’re talking about Sh SYNOPSIS here, right?)

This is wrong with multi-call binaries (those that inspect
argv[0]), as they’ll use “.Nm othername” in SYNOPSIS. These
aren’t uncommon, therefore I’d rather have a fixed four-space
(in nroff) continuation indent. I think I’ll change this in
my mdoc package, too, if I can find it…

Yes, I know about baseline in typography, sorry for the
confusion; I meant the indentation of the main body texts.



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