Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:44:05 -0500 From: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> To: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Sentence/Line break question in man pages Message-ID: <01BD5323.F2666700.meuston@jmrodgers.com>
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Sorry to be so pedantic, but...
In a manual page, is there a way to specify a sentence break (i.e. 2
spaces) when you are at the beginning of a line (e.g. after a '.Fl' that is
on its own line) so that I can get the following output:
-------------------------------------------------------------
and a vertical bar (|) after each that is a FIFO. Note that
^^ 2 spaces!
-------------------------------------------------------------
In the man file, this is currently (giving one space):
-------------------------------------------------------------
and a vertical bar (|) after each that is a
.Tn FIFO .
Note that
-------------------------------------------------------------
and the following does not work (it causes a line break):
-------------------------------------------------------------
and a vertical bar (|) after each that is a
.Tn FIFO .
Note that
-------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks,
Max
P.S. If there is a pointer on how to use the macros, I would be happy to
read that. I have been doing this by seeing what is currently done and
assuming what the macros stand for (yes I know what that makes me). 8-)
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