Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:26:10 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Propose mdoc fix regarding ERRORS section Message-ID: <19990829142610.C47956@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <199908282135.QAA00714@mpp.pro-ns.net> References: <19990828212130.A6853@scorpion.crimea.ua> <199908282135.QAA00714@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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* Mike Pritchard (mpp@FreeBSD.org) [990829 02:16]:
>> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:29:08AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote:
>> >
>> > I propose that we fix mdoc to allocate enough width when the second
>> > form is specified, and then change all of the man pages to use that
>> > format in the ERRORS section.
>
>> I think second way is better. I am going to remake my patch.
>> As first step I did this patch. I used 15 because error name EADDRNOTAVAIL
>> is longest error name I've found. (yes, I know that length is
>> 13, but we also need some space between columns)
>
>The longest errno's are 15 characters in lenght (EPROTONOSUPPORT),
>so Er should use width 17. I'll format some man pages using this
>and see how they look.
Btw, a question related to the mdoc consistency. Do we know where those
spurious empty lines come from?
Or is this a problem with {n|t|g}roff?
The 17 char width for Er sounds good btw.
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