From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Aug 28 14:37:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mpp.pro-ns.net (pppdsle70.mpls.uswest.net [216.160.23.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD5D1509B for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.pro-ns.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00714; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:35:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199908282135.QAA00714@mpp.pro-ns.net> Subject: Re: Propose mdoc fix regarding ERRORS section In-Reply-To: <19990828212130.A6853@scorpion.crimea.ua> from Alexey Zelkin at "Aug 28, 1999 09:21:30 pm" To: phantom@cris.net (Alexey Zelkin) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:35:15 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message