Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:57:55 +0300
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.crimea.ua>
Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to change man{1} output width
Message-ID: <20000530105755.A14696@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000529155004.A77084@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@cris.crimea.ua on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:50:04PM %2B0300
References: <39325DF3.93F59C76@freebsd.org> <20000529155004.A77084@ark.cris.net>
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On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:50:04PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:09:23PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > I'm using non - standard FreeBSD console geometry (100x37) and just wonder how > > I can adjust groff configuration to format man pages for 100 columns instead of > > default 80. I've tried to add .ll macro to the end of the > > /usr/share/tmac/man.local but it seems doesn't have any visible effect :-(. > > Does anybody with more deep knowledge of groff could advice me on this issue? > > > > In general it would be nice if someone would teach man(1) to respect COLUMNS > > environmental variable - all xterm users would definitely benefit from that. > > I have made patches to change default width to 40 chars per Ruslan Ermilov's > request. Since I removed these patches few months ago try to ask him > (ru@FreeBSD.org) and just customize them with changing default values. > Sorry, but I do not have one. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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