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[Groff] Re: manual pages and terminal width


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: [Groff] Re: manual pages and terminal width
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 19:10:30 +0200 (CEST)

> >   . The `man' program should define number registers `LL' and `LT'
> >     instead of setting .ll and .lt directly.
> > 
> I think a single `LL' register for both would DTRT.

I decided to use both LL and LT.  Reason: -ms does the same.  I
believe it is important to have a similar interface for consistency.

> >   . I will add code to both the man and mdoc macro packages to use
> >     a default value of 78n for the line and title length if LL and
> >     LT are not set (and 6.5i in troff mode).

The code is now in the CVS.  Please test.


    Werner

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