From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] unexpected tabs in man pages after font change
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 06:15:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <faaa823d36313b8cfa399aaa4753c501@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHL7psE+Lw5355k5QR7VUD240-9Z7SgNgSN6P8=XF7CmUHwW-w@mail.gmail.com>
> 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?
i don't use a mono font so i don't like your col -x solution, and this
works for me regardless.
if $font is set correctly, i believe all this should work out. make sure
that $tabstop=acme tabstop as well. the default for acme is 4, but
it is imported by $tabstop, and overridden with Tab.
cpu'ing can screw with your $font.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 16:13 Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 17:11 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-05 14:15 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2015-03-05 15:22 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 21:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-03-04 22:29 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 22:39 ` Stanley Lieber
2015-03-04 23:09 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-05 0:02 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 23:56 sl
2015-03-05 0:17 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-05 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
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