Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 01:26:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 newsyslog.c Message-ID: <199705090026.BAA01322@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 May 1997 14:31:34 %2B0200." <19970508143134.FV57371@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Brian Somers wrote: > > > Can someone take a look at the paragraph I added in newsyslog.8 ? > > It's skipping a line just above the first mention of > > path_to_pid_file, and I can't figure out why :( > > You mean the empty line above it? That's just a ``page break'', > something you gotta live with (or fix nroff or the -mdoc macros, i > suppose). Even nroff includes one blank line where it think a new > `page' starts. > > It's probably a bug in -mdoc. You can see the page break at exact the > same location (line 65) e.g. in the description of the -k option to > ls(1), while (just to pick another random example) the man page of > sh(1) doesn't experience this effect. This makes me feel beter - a bit. Surely this sort of stuff should be done in a "mangle doc | pr" sort of way, so that the user can have control over the "pr" bit. Does the groff -man bit do the "I know what a page is" bit ? If so, isn't this in the wrong place ? Maybe the "man" pipeline should be something like tbl | groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -man | col | pr $PRARGS | $PAGER where the pr bit is new..... > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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