On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 7:22 PM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greg: > > > This is by no means an issue. > > > The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man, > > > formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn. > > > Part of the formatting is making intervals between the words on a line > > > more or less equal by adding/removing blanks where deemed appropriate. > > Stephen Morris: > > But why is it doing only for my text and nothing else in the file, > > and why only in the first 3 or 4 words in a line and not the rest? > > Could there be an issue that the lines I've typed in are longer than > > the other lines in the file? > > Perhaps if I re-word what Greg said... > > Usually man pages are wrapped and "justified" so that each line of text > is the same length (just under the current width of the viewing > window). It does the justifying by adding extra spaces between some > words, and hyphenating others. > > Does that describe what you're seeing? > > Personally, I dislike this. While it may make a block of text look > neater, it makes it more difficult to read.
