groff 1.23.0 has difficulty with hyphenating a number of the entries in the name column of these tables when rendering in 80-column terminals. Setting a minimum width for this column gives it an easier time.
Reported-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> Reported-at: https://bugs.debian.org/1042358 Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> --- build-aux/extract-ofp-fields | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/build-aux/extract-ofp-fields b/build-aux/extract-ofp-fields index 808c6527d..449885981 100755 --- a/build-aux/extract-ofp-fields +++ b/build-aux/extract-ofp-fields @@ -322,7 +322,11 @@ def group_xml_to_nroff(group_node, fields): '.SS "Summary:"\n', ".TS\n", "tab(;);\n", - "l l l l l l l.\n", + # Hardcoding a width of 15 ens is a bit of a hack, but it's wide + # enough to avoid causing troff difficulty with hyphenating long + # identifiers, while still looking reasonable when formatted in wide + # terminals. + "lw15 l l l l l l.\n", "Name;Bytes;Mask;RW?;Prereqs;NXM/OXM?\n", "\_;\_;\_;\_;\_;\_\n", ] -- 2.39.2 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
