Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:10:06 -0700 (PDT) From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41791: Documentation formatting error Message-ID: <200208261710.g7QHA61S078575@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/41791; it has been noted by GNATS. From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@m3designinc.com>, bmah@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41791: Documentation formatting error Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:06:41 -0700 --==_Exmh_1094554506P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. FYI: Horizontal scrolling when viewing files works. That's not a solution to the real problem, but just mentioning this fact. > 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. Does this option actually exist? My links might be out of date, but: nimitz:TRACES% links -dump -width 78 http://www.freebsd.org/index.html Unknown option -width Note that we use the www/links1 port, not www/links, for generating the text docs. > Bruce, what do you think abou this? No objections, subject to this actually working. :-) Thanks, Bruce. --==_Exmh_1094554506P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9amAg2MoxcVugUsMRAj8NAKDkjG7T6chaSPiwtBWEs7YHRODK2QCgj+xj dh0vnU2B1o5S/NVM8O7QdM8= =nlN+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1094554506P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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