Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 18:00:02 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> - change a line in man.conf to obey MANWIDTH/COLUMNS:
> 
>   _build  .[1-9ln]  /usr/bin/mandoc ${COLUMNS+-Owidth=${MANWIDTH:-$COLUMNS}} %s
> 

And just for the record, the nroff equivalent for setting the width
with either old man or mandoc is by setting number registers LL
(length of line, like .ll directive) and LT (length of title, like
.lt) in 'n' units, e.g. to format a man page to the width of 120
characters:
 
  nroff -rLL=120n -rLT='\n(LL' -Tmandoc ...

-uwe