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Re: Change man format
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Chris Jones |
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Re: Change man format |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:13:37 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:28:42PM EST, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> Is it possible to change the formatting of man pages so that they are
> not justified and have no hyphenation?
>
> If so, which files have to be modified, and what would need to be
> changed?
Try to add the .na and .nh requests to 'man.local'.
On debian lenny the file is /etc/groff/man.local.
After making your changes, the file looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
.\" This file is loaded after an-old.tmac.
.\" Put any local modifications to an-old.tmac here.
.
.if n \{\
. \" Debian: Map \(oq to ' rather than ` in nroff mode for devices other
. \" than utf8.
. if !'\*[.T]'utf8' \
. tr \[oq]'
.
. \" Debian: Disable the use of SGR (ANSI colour) escape sequences by
. \" grotty.
. if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
. output x X tty: sgr 0
.
. \" Debian: Map \- to the Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS character, to make
. \" searching in man pages easier.
. if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
. char \- \N'45'
.
. \" Debian: Many UTF-8 man pages use "-" instead of "\-" for dashes such
. \" as those in command-line options. This is a bug in those pages, but
. \" too many fonts are missing the Unicode HYPHEN character, so we render
. \" this as the ASCII-compatible HYPHEN-MINUS instead.
. if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
. char - \N'45'
.na
.nh
.\}
------------------------------------------------------------------------
See the "REQUESTS" section of "man 7 groff" for details.
CJ
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