URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68638>
Summary: [grohtml,man] fix absurd indentation of synopses
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sat 22 Aug 2026 08:35:32 PM UTC
Category: General
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: Rendering/Cosmetics
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sat 22 Aug 2026 08:35:32 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
grohtml indents synopses much too far. All they need is ordinary paragraph
indentation.
The generated HTML source reveals the problem.
<h2>Name
<a name="Name"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">groff_trace -
macros for debugging GNU <i>roff</i> documents</p>
<h2>Synopsis
<a name="Synopsis"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:25%; margin-top: 1em"><b>groff -m
trace</b> [<i>option </i>...]
[<i>file </i>...]</p>
<h2>Description
<a name="Description"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em"><i>trace</i> is
a macro package for the
<a href="man:groff(7)"><i>groff</i>(7)</a> document
formatting system, designed as an aid for debugging
documents written in its language. It issues a message to
the standard error stream upon entry to and exit from each
macro call. This can ease the process of isolating errors in
macro definitions.</p>
Why "margin-left: 25%" for the synopsis? That's bonkers.
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