Re: Odd spacing behaviour

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM Morten Bo Johansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay. I have seen some minor spacing justification in some texts I have
> written, but I didn't know it could get this extreme ;)

Well, the fewer spaces roff has to work with, the more each space has
to expand: the formatter will always bring the text to both margins
under ".ad. n".  (This assumes there are spaces or other breakpoints
to work with: if there are none, such as in a lengthy string without
spaces like a URL, text may fall short of or go past the right
margin.)  But typically in a situation such as you're demonstrating,
where a horizontal line goes most of the width of a page, you'll
explicitly ask for a break before the horizontal line, which will
result in more reasonable layout of the preceding text.