On 14/12/24 11:27, Jeffrey Walton
wrote:
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.From the man(7) man page: Where the SEE ALSO list contains many long manual page names, to improve the visual result of the output, it may be useful to employ the .ad l (don't right justify) and .nh (don't hyphenate) directives... Jeff
Unless I have put the directives in the man page incorrectly the .nd directive has stopped the hyphenation but the .ad l directive hasn't stopped the insertion of blanks for alignment.
regards,
Steve
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