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[groff] 06/11: NEWS: Clarify man page line length item.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 06/11: NEWS: Clarify man page line length item.
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:28:28 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit d9e3f3d6b9d27f68a176dfb02e0a09a046ee0b1b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 30 02:51:39 2024 -0600

    NEWS: Clarify man page line length item.
---
 NEWS | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d6283af70..c04787fdd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ o The an (man), doc (mdoc), and doc-old (mdoc-old) macro 
packages have
   to 80n.  The latter is a vastly more common configuration, but that
   line length had been avoided for decades (perhaps as long as as groff
   has existed), for an undocumented reason.  That reason appears to have
-  been bugs in GNU tbl(1) and its interaction with an aspect of
+  been the interaction of bugs in GNU tbl(1) with an aspect of
   grotty(1)'s design.  Those bugs have been resolved.  A man(1) program
-  can still instruct groff to format for any desired line length.
+  can still instruct groff to format for any desired line length by
+  setting the `LL` register on {g,n,t}roff's command line.
 
 o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now support a `BP` register
   to configure the ("base") paragraph inset amount; that is the amount



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