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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:25:35 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
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Subject: Re: mdoc(7) question
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Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>     Thanks guys. Is there a clean way to make sure that the description
>     will always begin on the line below the tag line? IOW, with
>     .Bl -tag, if the actual tag width is less than that of -width's
>     argument, these two items will fold, and description will begin on
>     the tag line. That's not what I want.

Man pages kind of need to look like all other man pages.  So
while it's possible to do what you want, with enough effort, it
is likely not a good idea for you to do it.

-- Terry

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