Hi, I've finally fixed the issue by adding the following line at the
beginning /rc/bin/man

fn col { builtin col -x $* }


Turn out that that the culprit was not troff, but col(1) that man uses as a
post processor.

Attached you can compare the versions with and without the fix.

This fix should works with any non-monospaced font.


Giacomo


2015-03-05 0:09 GMT+01:00 Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>:

> Well, while a bit offtopic... what do you mean by "programmatically".
>
> And btw, programs don't write man pages... yet.
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>
> Giacomo
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> 2015-03-04 23:39 GMT+01:00 Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org>:
> > troff is great. easy to maintain programmatically.
> >
> > sl
> >
>