Dave wrote: > Attached is a patch to man.conf, providing a (hacked) solution allowing > MANWIDTH > to work (here at least). Only intended as a short term fixup for those who > need > it :). Will need some work if you want it to cope with term resizing. > > Thanks to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2003-03/msg00038.html
> -NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null > +NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc -rLL=`echo $MANWIDTH`n -rLT=`echo > $MANWIDTH`n 2>/dev/null Just a little more info about how debian does this, in case someone wants to flesh this out for it to do "the right thing". >From Debian's "man man": MANWIDTH If $MANWIDTH is set, its value is used as the line length for which manual pages should be formatted. If it is not set, manual pages will be formatted with a line length appropriate to the current terminal (using an ioctl(2) if available, the value of $COLUMNS, or falling back to 80 characters if neither is available). Cat pages will only be saved when the default formatting can be used, that is when the terminal line length is between 66 and 80 characters. I think they must be using their own patched version of man which adds all of the above functionality. "man --version" says "man, version 2.4.2, 2003-09-20". It has no man.conf that I can find. On a 130 char wide screen, running man results in the following process tree, from ps --forest: man man \_ sh -c (echo '.ll 126n'; /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanc7tnnh) | \ /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n \ -Tascii | less \_ /usr/bin/tbl \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n -Tascii | \_ groff -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n | \_ troff -mtty-char -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n -Tascii | \_ grotty \_ less So it would appear that the "-rLL" and "-rLT" thing is the way to go. I'm not familiar enough with nroff to know what the ".ll 126n" one is necessary for, presumably so that tables are formatted to the proper width as well. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/