On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:39:47PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Doug, > > > But it soon became old hat and people migrated back to ragged right > > margins, which may not look as neat from afar, but also seem to be > > easier to read both because of even spacing and because the variable > > margin provides distinguishablility to help a reader track vertical > > position on the page. > > Right. That's why I have `--nj' in the MANOPT environment variable. > I'm surprised more distributions don't turn off justification by default > as most users are unaware that man(1) might have a configuration option. > Colin?
Mostly conservatism, I guess. I personally prefer full justification in manual pages, but probably just because I've got used to it over the years, and I only added the options in 2009 (https://bugs.debian.org/440047). There's no good (i.e. configuration-file-based) way for a distribution to change the default. Could you file a bug report for me as a reminder? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
