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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-03-30 21:28:00 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-03-30 21:28:00 +0000
commit4eb2d12b27096ee78c5daf9473a287c1b1ea15f7 (patch)
treea552e84f6cc04d44eaccee565996dd4a38b28e71 /share/man
parentf3916529de253ca8e432b5b96de2e02d6e198e2e (diff)
Support relative arguments to .ll (increase or decrease line length).
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/roff.76
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/roff.7 b/share/man/man7/roff.7
index ce6fbcb82e2..79f1748a074 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/roff.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.29 2014/03/30 19:47:32 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.30 2014/03/30 21:27:59 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -876,12 +876,14 @@ request are discarded.
Change the output line length.
Its syntax is as follows:
.Pp
-.D1 Pf . Cm \&ll Op Ar width
+.D1 Pf . Cm \&ll Op Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar width
.Pp
If the
.Ar width
argument is omitted, the line length is reset to its previous value.
The default setting for terminal output is 78n.
+If a sign is given, the line length is added to or subtracted from;
+otherwise, it is set to the provided value.
Using this request in new manuals is discouraged for several reasons,
among others because it overrides the
.Xr mandoc 1