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Re: extra wide long lines in man pages and other changes needed



On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 5) src/usr.sbin/grfconfig/grfconfig.8 
> 
>  |        |                           !      |        |
>  |        |\*[Le]=========== wid =========+=====\*[Gt]|        |
>  |        |                           !      |        |
> 
> The \*[Le] is a less-than in man on console. But in postscript it is a 
> less-than-or-equal character and causes the formatting to be off by one.

\*[Le] should produce "<=" (not just "<") in ascii text output, and
a less-than-or-equal character in output formats that support that.
Clearly it should be changed to "\*[Lt]=", so it produces a less-than
sign followed by an equals sign.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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