On 24/10/2011 11:02, Michal Mazurek wrote:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 02:14:02PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
I committed build system changes to install source manuals
and no longer install formatted manuals from 5.0 onwards.
This is nice, now I can do something like this in /etc/man.conf:
< _build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/mandoc %s
_build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/mandoc -Owidth=`stty size | awk
'{print $2 - 2}'` %s
to have the manpage fit my display. Especially usefull if I have split
screen in a tiling window manager, and the terminals are smaller than 80
columns.
(Looks like schwarze@ beat me to a reply...)
Neat! I never thought of that, though I often use -Owidth to embed
manuals in emails without line-wrapping. Never really thought of using
it elsewhere. mandoc may behave funny when squeezed for space, so as
schwarze@ said, please mail me if you see aberrant behaviour.
An alternative (which I haven't tried) is to set the manpager to "lynx
-stdin" and use "mandoc -Thtml" as an output mode. Then lynx can reflow
the text for you. It's not possible to do links, however (I leave why
not as an exercise for the reader).
Take care,
Kristaps
