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Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?


From: Steve Izma
Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:12:42 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 09:28:45AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:26:46AM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> > I think it's an abomination that a man page extends it's line
> > length to fit the width of the terminal; built into the macros
> > should be a 65- or 70 character maximum width.
> 
> I'd be willing to take a bug report about the way that man-db does this
> by default; it's a change I adopted from Andries Brouwer's man way back
> in 2001...

I apologize for being needlessly sarcastic here. I assumed the
source of the problem was long lost on some magnetic tape
somewhere. I've submitted a report, which I hope is clear enough.

        -- Steve

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