Interestingly enough the problem disappears with a mono font.

I suspect that troff is inserting such tabs instead of spaces when it
thinks they are the same. Indeed libframe (as far I could understand from
the manual and the sources) properly handles such variable width fonts.

Looks like I've to inform troff about the glyphs sizes... but how?


Giacomo

2015-03-04 17:13 GMT+01:00 Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>:

> Hi, I've just installed a compact sans font (from
> http://input.fontbureau.com/ ) and manual pages started to look broken.
>
> As you can see in the screenshot (man 2 control), there are white spaces
> that looks like tabs in the middle of the text with apparently no reason.
> Even in the troff source (why the hell we still use troff for manual
> pages? :-D) I can see no command that explain this behaviour.
>
> Any tip to fix them?
>
>
> Giacomo
>
> [image: Immagine in linea 1]
>