From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Tue May 2 18:54:21 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F74DD5A885; Tue, 2 May 2017 18:54:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brde@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C14289; Tue, 2 May 2017 18:54:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brde@optusnet.com.au) Received: from besplex.bde.org (c122-106-153-191.carlnfd1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [122.106.153.191]) by mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A018AD48B68; Wed, 3 May 2017 04:54:17 +1000 (AEST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 04:54:16 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Ed Maste cc: Bruce Evans , Konstantin Belousov , "src-committers@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: svn commit: r317681 - head/share/man/man7 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20170503044547.N3070@besplex.bde.org> References: <201705021452.v42EqZSB010115@repo.freebsd.org> <20170503013818.F2099@besplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Optus-CM-Score: 0 X-Optus-CM-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=KeqiiUQD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Tj3pCpwHnMupdyZSltBt7Q==:117 a=Tj3pCpwHnMupdyZSltBt7Q==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=PO7r1zJSAAAA:8 a=1Dp2HpvB65-dm67t7doA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 18:54:21 -0000 On Tue, 2 May 2017, Ed Maste wrote: > On 2 May 2017 at 12:35, Bruce Evans 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