Larry W Virden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry to side track the future discussions, but this just came up
> today...
No problem at all; this is the place for it.
> In a pod document, one of the =item values was over 70 chars. Trying to
> display the entry resulted in some peculiar behavior - the text after
> about 70 didn't wrap to the next line, it appeared BEFORE the item. The
> workaround being used right now is to hand break the line, using two
> =item entries, but that's rather ugly...
This was discussed before and the basic answer is "don't do that." You
basically just have to keep the =item values short. The primary problem
here is with *roff; the -man macro set just doesn't support long hanging
paragraph tags.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
