From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 25 18:10: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3810337B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F0343E4A for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7Q1A2JU016227 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7Q1A24t016226; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208260110.g7Q1A24t016226@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/41791: Documentation formatting error Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/41791; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jerry Dunham Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41791: Documentation formatting error Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:01:43 +0300 On 2002-08-19 12:50 +0000, Jerry Dunham wrote: > I'm installing 4.6 for the first time. I read all the > documentation accessed via sysinstall, but had a minor problem. All > the documentation appears to be exactly one character wider than my > screen. I'm losing the rightmost character of many lines. I think I know why this happens... sysinstall uses libdialog as the interface library. The READMEs and other text files are displayed in a text dialog box that is COLS columns wide and ROWS rows high. The rightmost and leftmost columns are saved for the libdialog borders. Thus the maximum visible width of a text file in libdialog is (COLS-2) columns. In an 80-column terminal, this is 78. But the documentation files are formatted with a -width option of 80 and thus sometimes wrap at 79 columns. I think we should probably set HTML2TXTFLAGS to add extra `-width 78' options to links while building the release notes. Bruce, what do you think abou this? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message