svn commit: r317681 - head/share/man/man7

[Ed Maste]

On 2 May 2017 at 12:35, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> -current man can't handle macros like "Sy" with -width or some other
> things including the things used above.  This causes it to produce
> excessive column spacing.  The formatting is bad enough without this
> (verbose headers but all columns except "Architecture" have only 1-2
> digits).  -current man just considers "Sy " as literal and increases
> the column spacing by 3, giving a spacing of 7 columns instead of 4,
> where we really want a negative number but 2 would work OK.

We discussed this in review D7261. I created arch.7 with ".Sy based on
an example from FreeBSD 10's mdoc(7). In D7261 I noted that there were
existing man pages with both ".Sy and "Sy .

Do you believe we should remove them altogether?

On 2 May 2017 at 13:44, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I removed excessive sizeof(), which fixed width.
>
> diff --git a/share/man/man7/arch.7 b/share/man/man7/arch.7
> index 1ce397a303e..73552d60209 100644
> --- a/share/man/man7/arch.7
> +++ b/share/man/man7/arch.7
> @@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ On all supported architectures,
>  .It float Ta 4
>  .It double Ta 8
>  .El
> -.Bl -column -offset indent "Sy Architecture" "Sy sizeof(void *)" "Sy sizeof(long double)" "Sy sizeof(time_t)"
> -.It Sy Architecture Ta Sy sizeof(void *) Ta Sy sizeof(long double) Ta Sy sizeof(time_t)
> +.Pp
> +Machine-depended type's sizes:

Probably "Machine-dependent type sizes"