Re: [PATCH 08/42] doc: improve formatting of command synopses (1/2)

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jan 2026 00:39:44 -0600

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Hi Bernhard,

Following up on my own message...

At 2025-12-30T17:47:43-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> (One _can_ specify the indentation that a `TP` paragraph uses, but
> this can be tedious to maintain,[2] so neither I nor mandoc(1)
> maintainer Ingo Schwarze recommend it.)
[...]
> [2] I can't find it right now, I had an exchange with Alex Colomar,
>     Linux man-pages project maintainer, on this topic some years ago.
>     In so doing I managed to dream up a sequence of text layout
>     problems, solutions, and further problems that may have resembled
>     those that drove Mike Lesk's development of the tbl(1)
>     preprocessor at the Bell Labs CSRC.

I found it.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20220722033353.ap7aqxh6uhghdcxo@illithid/

If anyone _needs_ to read a _long_ case against taking on the tedium of
maintaining paragraphing indentation amounts in man pages to be
discouraged from doing so, that's it.

Regards,
Branden

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