Re: man page indent

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Sorry, I am not sure I follow. Please give a small example of the input you're using (markdown?).

I don't see any difference between the indentation of the man page for pandoc and, say, emacs on my system.

> On Nov 20, 2022, at 9:24 AM, Rick Stanley <rick.stanley.inc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> In any Standard Library man page, that displays example code, the line "Program Source" is indented by 4 spaces, and the source code is indented by 8.
> In creating my own man page, using pandoc, the "Program Source" line is indented by 8, and my source is indented by 16 spaces.  I would prefer the same indentation for all my man pages.
> 
> I don't have lua installed and would prefer not to use if if at all possible.  I am writing pure C.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 11:57:59 AM UTC-5 fiddlosopher wrote:
> Are you saying you want code blocks to be indented to the same level as the man page's body text? 
> 
> You could achieve that with a lua filter that resets paragraph indentation before each code block. Save this as unindent_code.lua: 
> 
> ``` 
> function CodeBlock(el) 
> return { pandoc.RawBlock("man", '.IP "" 0'), el } 
> end 
> ``` 
> 
> Then use --lua-filter unindent_code.lua on the command line when you convert to man. 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Nov 20, 2022, at 6:12 AM, Rick Stanley <rick.sta...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: 
> > 
> > When using __Program Source__ in creating a man page, it indents 8 spaces not 4. How to manage the indent level when using pandoc? 
> > 
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