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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 b/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 index 39fc814ad10..b3258f514c7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 +++ b/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.146 2018/03/16 15:05:33 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.147 2018/04/13 19:55:13 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 16 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 13 2018 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -299,9 +299,6 @@ The special characters documented in .Xr mandoc_char 7 are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent. .Pp -Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines -exceed this limit. -.Pp The following .Fl O arguments are accepted: @@ -315,6 +312,8 @@ and seven for .Xr man 7 . Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting, for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks. +When output is to a pager on a terminal that is less than 66 columns +wide, the default is reduced to three columns. .It Cm mdoc Format .Xr man 7 @@ -331,7 +330,12 @@ output formats in the same way as the source it was generated from. .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width The output width is set to -.Ar width . +.Ar width +instead of the default of 78. +When output is to a pager on a terminal that is less than 79 columns +wide, the default is reduced to one less than the terminal width. +In any case, lines that are output in literal mode are never wrapped +and may exceed the output width. .El .Ss HTML Output Output produced by |