Tim: > > 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? Stephen Morris: > I've looked again an the text I have added is exhibiting the > insertion of blanks throughout the long lines, but this "alignment" > is more extensive after shortening the lines I put in the man file. > I'm not getting any dashes inserted in any of what I have added, but > the original text does, and what I've only noticed now is the > original text has additional blanks inserted. Not having edited man pages, myself. I have to ask, does the source you're modifying have formatting codes? The whole thing, not just your bits. > Having said this though, that aligning only occurs for lines that are > longer than the physical width of the display window, having this > though, with expanding the konsole window to almost 2160 wide the > insertion of blanks became more obvious and I am now getting the > insertion of a dash in one of the words for the text I have added. > Also what I've noticed is the insertion of blanks, etc, doesn't occur > in lines that are shorter in length than the width of the konsole > window. Yes, the justifying only applies to lines long enough for it, if a line is short, it's left short (like this). You haven't said how wide your console normally is. Mine start off with the traditional 80-columns, and I usually leave them that way unless I'm trying to view tabulated data longer than 80 columns that gets mangled. Or, I'm reading a console squeezed into the space next to another window. Also, I'm using a monospace font (as expected in a terminal). For what it's worth, I notice that man pages are justified, but info pages aren't, by simply looking at "man man" versus "info info". And if I do the converse of "man info" and "info man" it behaves differently. So, I'm guessing that the compiling of a man page has included formatting instructions, and the man and info page viewers have ways to deal with that concerning when you use a different window size. i.e. The files aren't hard wrapped. There would appear to be some instruction with them to justify, or not, this data. But not specifically where to do it. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
