On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 04:16 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > groff_man.man says this: > > > > > > -rLL=line-length > > > Set line length. If this option is not given, the line > > > length defaults to 78n in nroff mode and 6.5i in troff mode. > > > > And, of course I *could* add that to the nroff invocation spec in > > `man.conf', but that would still be a hard coded display width, > > rather than having the dynamically adjusted properties `man' tries > > to achieve with the `.ll' injection in the command pipe. > > At least at the time, the man maintainer wasn't particularly active on > the groff list. I was, and thus I changed man-db to cope by using > -rLL.
Well, it's all rather academic now; man-1.6+ also uses `-rLL', but in any case, Werner accepted a patch to an-old.tmac, to make it play better with any man implementation which expects to use `.ll', without any detrimental effect on those which do use `-rLL'. Regards, Keith.
