Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes: > The mdoc(7) manpage says about .Bl that > > The -width and -offset arguments accept scaling widths > as described in roff(7) or use the length of the given string. > > The words "width" or "offset" do not appear anywhere in roff(7).
You're looking at the roff(7) manpage that comes with groff. Your pager probably prints "/usr/local/man/cat7/roff.0" at the bottom of your screen. You could use man -a and then enter ":n" to get the base manpage. > A description of the often seen 'Ds' is given in the .Bd section, > but again it points to roff(7) for the complete description, > which is not there. > > Is that meant to be another roff-related > manpage from base? Or groff(7)? > > Jan -- Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas PGP Key fingerprint: 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494
