On 2019-04-09 1:47 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I assume that there is some perl convention for documentation (POD?), > but I'm not immersed in that culture.
Yeah, POD can make a decent man page without fiddling with groff. But maybe test the source with sane-width terminals (<= 80 cols) to see if any reformatting must be made. Outside groff, there's also the Heirloom Documentation Tools <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html> which are somehow based on the original Solaris source. A newer - and frankly glorious - option is A G Rudi's Neatroff <http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatstart.pdf> that's not only able to typeset bi-di texts but it also handles Opentype ligatures for efficient handling of Arabic and Farsi. > | How many people are limited to 80 columns. > > You are being sarcastic, right? 80 column terminals aren't the thing amongst the kids today. Used to work with folks who'd use full-screen terminals with 8 px fonts, and not windowed with tmux or anything. > Buy an UltraHD TV or monitor. Or get two 16x9s, and flip one vertically. It means your desktop looks a bit O_o, but it works. cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk