[RFC] Smaller line length for FORMAT="txt"

Bruce A. Mah bmah at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 29 22:55:15 UTC 2004


If memory serves me right, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Any objections to the following minor change to the doc makefiles?

[snip]

> The problem described in the PR is caused by the ``large'' line-width of
> the ASCII text format.  Currently, this is set to 78 characters, but in
> sysinstall's dialogs we have at least 2 characters less in each line
> because of the dialog decorations.
> 
> I completed a full doc/ build today with this patch.  I don't think it
> breaks anything very important, so I would be glad if this was committed
> some day.

I ought to know the answer to this, but what happens to screenshots or
very wide <pre></pre> elements?  This is not an objection, just a
question.

Bruce.

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