Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 04:54:16 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r317681 - head/share/man/man7 Message-ID: <20170503044547.N3070@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2Ckp4fvyngx0brfcHBzRBsCbYWkomzZuvD8ajMy7kZhBA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201705021452.v42EqZSB010115@repo.freebsd.org> <20170503013818.F2099@besplex.bde.org> <CAPyFy2Ckp4fvyngx0brfcHBzRBsCbYWkomzZuvD8ajMy7kZhBA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2 May 2017, Ed Maste wrote: > On 2 May 2017 at 12:35, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> -current man can't handle macros like "Sy" with -width or some other >> things including the things used above. This causes it to produce >> excessive column spacing. The formatting is bad enough without this >> (verbose headers but all columns except "Architecture" have only 1-2 >> digits). -current man just considers "Sy " as literal and increases >> the column spacing by 3, giving a spacing of 7 columns instead of 4, >> where we really want a negative number but 2 would work OK. > > We discussed this in review D7261. I created arch.7 with ".Sy based on > an example from FreeBSD 10's mdoc(7). In D7261 I noted that there were > existing man pages with both ".Sy and "Sy . All examples in at least FreeBSD-5's mdoc(7) use ".Sy" if it is the first macro in a ``subsection''. "Sy" is used more often but not as the first macro. Typically after '.It'. > Do you believe we should remove them altogether? I think you mean "all of them in .Bl and similar macros". I don't like removing features that once worked. Someone might be using them. I only noticed that I was using this one when it stopped working :-). Bruce
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