Re: man pages: how to turn off hyphenation and justification?

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:31:27 -0500

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On 2011-11-30, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2011-08-31, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> How does one turn off hyphenation and justification in man pages?
>
>    Some years ago I found an answer to this, but I can't find it now.
>
>    Does anyone know?

  After a lot of hunting and experimentation, putting this in
  /usr/share/groff/site-tmac/man.local worked:

.hy 0
.if n .ad l


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