From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 07:46:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08137 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:46:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.jmrodgers.com ([205.247.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08093 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: from max.jmrodgers.com (max.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.209]) by gw.jmrodgers.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA18023 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:45:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:44:09 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD5323.F2666700.meuston@jmrodgers.com> From: Max Euston To: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: Sentence/Line break question in man pages Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:44:05 -0500 Organization: J.M. Rodgers Co., Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-) ----- Max Euston To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message