Re: [PATCH 10/19] man/{curs_variables.3x,infocmp.1m}: Drop adjustment requests.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 01:39:44PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 11:46:08AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Drop `na` and `ad` requests, recalling rationale from January revision
> > of the capability tables in terminfo(5).
> 
> I added those because the result looks poor with manpages.  Here's what
> it looks like from last week's changes:
...
> Perhaps a troff/nroff macro to disable adjustment in nroff would be helpful.

The relevant part of the MKterminfo.sh change was this:

   * man/MKterminfo.sh: Revise sed substitution to add an `.ad l` request
     at the beginning of every text block generated in the capability
     tables.  Because the adjustment mode within a text block is discarded
     by tbl(1), this works to left-align text blocks, permit them to break
     (as desired by use of a text block in the first place), and doesn't
     interfere with the alignment/adjustment of text outside the table.

However, the indicated ".ad l" doesn't appear (to me) to apply to suppressing
adjustment in a paragraph (which isn't the same sort of block).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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