On Tue, 2 May 2017, Ed Maste wrote:
On 2 May 2017 at 12:35, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
-current man can't handle macros like "Sy" with -width or some other
things including the things used above. This causes it to produce
excessive column spacing. The formatting is bad enough without this
(verbose headers but all columns except "Architecture" have only 1-2
digits). -current man just considers "Sy " as literal and increases
the column spacing by 3, giving a spacing of 7 columns instead of 4,
where we really want a negative number but 2 would work OK.
We discussed this in review D7261. I created arch.7 with ".Sy based on
an example from FreeBSD 10's mdoc(7). In D7261 I noted that there were
existing man pages with both ".Sy and "Sy .
All examples in at least FreeBSD-5's mdoc(7) use ".Sy" if it is the first
macro in a ``subsection''. "Sy" is used more often but not as the first
macro. Typically after '.It'.
Do you believe we should remove them altogether?
I think you mean "all of them in .Bl and similar macros". I don't like
removing features that once worked. Someone might be using them. I
only noticed that I was using this one when it stopped working :-).
Bruce
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