ehm... well... actually I could try with vnc... :-)


Giacomo

2015-03-06 18:22 GMT+01:00 Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>:

> Actually I'm using drawterm, as a sort of remote desktop connection. But I
> can't see the problem you are talking about.
> The clients (either windows or linux) don't have the font installed, but
> still it seem working pretty well (except for the spacing issues in man
> pages). I don't have a real monitor attached to the xen server, so I can't
> try it without drawterm.
>
> col.c just ignores $tabstop in it's source code. It use a Tabstop = 8
> constant instead (and a 7 value to check for position).
> Changing the code to use $tabstop is trivial, and I even tried it, but it
> neither fixed the initial problem nor decreased the man output size enough
> to justify it's proposal.
>
> I'm going to write a sed script to remove the leading margin (but not
> every space or tab at the beginning of each line) from nroff output so that
> (with my font and my 14inches monitor) I can use a 3 column acme to browse
> /sys/src/ && read the code && browse man pages.
> This should also reduce the man output size more than col.
>
>
> Giacomo
>
> 2015-03-06 17:33 GMT+01:00 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>
>> On Fri Mar  6 04:57:18 PST 2015, giacomo@tesio.it wrote:
>>
>> > if ((++ncp & 7) == 0 && !xflag) {
>> >
>> > with
>> >
>> > if ((++ncp & 7) == 0 && !xflag && *(p-2) == ' ') {
>>
>> that solves it.  you have a problem with $tabstop.  if you've cpu'd
>> or ssh'd somewhere, make sure the $tabstop is set properly, and that
>> the font you are using is available on the remote host, and $font
>> is pointing to it.
>>
>> - erik
>>
>>
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