Hi Bernhard, Following up on my own message...
At 2025-12-30T17:47:43-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > (One _can_ specify the indentation that a `TP` paragraph uses, but > this can be tedious to maintain,[2] so neither I nor mandoc(1) > maintainer Ingo Schwarze recommend it.) [...] > [2] I can't find it right now, I had an exchange with Alex Colomar, > Linux man-pages project maintainer, on this topic some years ago. > In so doing I managed to dream up a sequence of text layout > problems, solutions, and further problems that may have resembled > those that drove Mike Lesk's development of the tbl(1) > preprocessor at the Bell Labs CSRC. I found it. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20220722033353.ap7aqxh6uhghdcxo@illithid/ If anyone _needs_ to read a _long_ case against taking on the tedium of maintaining paragraphing indentation amounts in man pages to be discouraged from doing so, that's it. Regards, Branden
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