* Re: [9fans] unexpected tabs in man pages after font change
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@ 2015-03-05 0:02 ` Giacomo Tesio
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From: Giacomo Tesio @ 2015-03-05 0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs, 9front
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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".
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> 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.
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> > sl
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