On 8/4/23 19:25, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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",

15 is not actually enough, there are a few that still get hyphenated.

>          "Name;Bytes;Mask;RW?;Prereqs;NXM/OXM?\n",
>          "\_;\_;\_;\_;\_;\_\n",
>      ]

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