Re: [Groff] LL Usage in an-old.tmac Incompatible with man Program on GNU/Linux

[Keith Marshall]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 04:16 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > groff_man.man says this:
> > >
> > >   -rLL=line-length
> > >      Set line length.  If this option is not given, the line
> > >      length defaults to 78n in nroff mode and 6.5i in troff mode.
> > 
> > And, of course I *could* add that to the nroff invocation spec in
> > `man.conf',  but that would still be a hard coded display width,
> > rather than having the dynamically adjusted properties `man' tries
> > to achieve with the `.ll' injection in the command pipe.
> 
> At least at the time, the man maintainer wasn't particularly active on
> the groff list. I was, and thus I changed man-db to cope by using
> -rLL.

Well, it's all rather academic now; man-1.6+ also uses `-rLL', but in
any case, Werner accepted a patch to an-old.tmac, to make it play better
with any man implementation which expects to use `.ll', without any
detrimental effect on those which do use `-rLL'.

Regards,
Keith.