Which font are you using?
With all mono-spaced (fixed-width) fonts everything works fine. The problem
occurs just with variable spaced fonts.
Btw I noted that the fix is not perfect: the table at the end of man(1) is
misaligned, with or without the fix. Even without calling col at all.
This coul
> Interestingly enough the problem disappears with a mono font.
>
> I suspect that troff is inserting such tabs instead of spaces when it
> thinks they are the same. Indeed libframe (as far I could understand from
> the manual and the sources) properly handles such variable width fonts.
>
> Looks
> > And btw, programs don't write man pages... yet.
>
> Are you familiar with the conventions that power godoc?
i think what's being said here is that programs don't write the content.
without looking at godoc, i'm pretty sure that intended usage and the
context are going to be written by a human
