From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 5:50:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7881F37B63E; Mon, 29 May 2000 05:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phantom@ark.cris.net) Received: from ark.cris.net (root@ark.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA39092; Mon, 29 May 2000 15:49:36 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA78197; Mon, 29 May 2000 15:50:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from phantom) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:50:04 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, ru@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change man{1} output width Message-ID: <20000529155004.A77084@ark.cris.net> References: <39325DF3.93F59C76@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39325DF3.93F59C76@freebsd.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:09:23PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. PS: You need not to change anything in man(1). All issues are directly related to groff(1). -- /* Alexey Zelkin && phantom@cris.net */ /* Tavric National University && phantom@crimea.edu */ /* http://www.ccssu.crimea.ua/~phantom && phantom@FreeBSD.org */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message