Re: [9front] werc/apps/wman botches some man page links

[sl@stanleylieber.com]

>> I think the best solution is to insert a newline
>> immediately after the man page link, wherever
>> it may fall. This isn’t perfect but it’s better than
>> having one infinitely long line sticking out of
>> an otherwise consistently formatted section.
> 
> Sorry, I think I was unclear.  What I mean is
> if, eg, you change /sys/man/8/venti:319 to read:
> 
> .IR venti\-fmt (8)).

[...]

> My other point was that perhaps these strings
> shouldn't be broken in normal nroff output
> anyway. I mean, it breaks plumbing the string,
> which is kind of the whole point of the cmd(#)
> format..., so fixing it in the source is
> perhaps justified?

This sounds reasonable to me.

Anyone else have an opinion?

sl