On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:49:54AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > WTF is your problem with it? > > I wrote documentation. Be glad I did. If > you don't think it looks real pretty, > you can offer a CORRECT replacement. > That is, you have to do some pretty foul > *roff stuff to avoid getting line breaks > and hyphens when they don't belong. > > I don't know what you're looking for. > Maybe you actually think it looks good > to have gaping wide margins with a > narrow column of "perfect-justified" > text in the middle? > > Real UNIX systems don't do that anymore. > Check out Tru64 man pages sometime, > using one of the many free developer > accounts. Whine, whine, whine, piss and moan. 1) Debian *has* rewritten your abysmal manpage -- quite some ago, in fact. 2) If you want Linux's man to format things differently, submit a patch. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | "Bother," said Pooh, as he was branden@debian.org | assimilated by the Borg. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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