Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 21:21:30 +0400 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Propose mdoc fix regarding ERRORS section Message-ID: <19990828212130.A6853@scorpion.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <199908280729.CAA93164@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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hi,
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:29:08AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote:
> >Category: docs
> >Synopsis: src/lib/libc/sys/*.2 misc patch pack
> - first column in most ERROR lists is too narrow. Normalize their width.
> Man pages can also specify:
>
> .Bl -tag -width Er
>
> Which will reserve enough space for the errno name based on what
> width the Er macro specifies. Right now it doesn't allocate enough
> width to contain our largest errno's.
>
> 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)
Index: doc-common
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/CVSROOT/src/contrib/groff/tmac/doc-common,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 doc-common
--- doc-common 1999/05/14 17:35:17 1.15
+++ doc-common 1999/08/28 19:20:31
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
.nr Eo 12n
.nr Eq 12n
.nr Em 10n
-.nr Er 12n
+.nr Er 15n
.nr Ev 15n
.nr Ex 10n
.nr Fa 12n
--
Sincerely Yours, | phantom@crimea.edu (primary)
Alexey Zelkin | phantom@scorpion.crimea.ua (home)
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