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commit d9e3f3d6b9d27f68a176dfb02e0a09a046ee0b1b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 30 02:51:39 2024 -0600
NEWS: Clarify man page line length item.
---
NEWS | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d6283af70..c04787fdd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ o The an (man), doc (mdoc), and doc-old (mdoc-old) macro
packages have
to 80n. The latter is a vastly more common configuration, but that
line length had been avoided for decades (perhaps as long as as groff
has existed), for an undocumented reason. That reason appears to have
- been bugs in GNU tbl(1) and its interaction with an aspect of
+ been the interaction of bugs in GNU tbl(1) with an aspect of
grotty(1)'s design. Those bugs have been resolved. A man(1) program
- can still instruct groff to format for any desired line length.
+ can still instruct groff to format for any desired line length by
+ setting the `LL` register on {g,n,t}roff's command line.
o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now support a `BP` register
to configure the ("base") paragraph inset amount; that is the amount
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