Warn about long lines

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Ingo, Branden,

Would you mind adding a warning about this?

I'm currently doing a global fix in the Linux man-pages turning kernel 
types like __u64 into the standard uint64_t that user-space programmers 
expect.  Most of these are used within structure definitions, and so 
they are within .EX/.EE (non-filled).  I fear that I might be making one 
of those structure definitions go past the right margin, and there are 
so many, that it's not funny rendering all of them to check; not even 
only those that I suspect that might; especially, since some may be 
deeply indented in .RS/.RE blocks that I may not notice (and that 
happened at least once --in one that I checked, luckily--).

$ cat longline.man
.TH a b c d
.SH foo
.nf
this is a very long line that will go past the 80-col right margin, and 
I want to be warned about it.
.fi
$
$ groff -man -ww -z ./longline.man
$
$ mandoc -Tlint ./longline.man
mandoc: ./longline.man:1:5: STYLE: lower case character in document 
title: TH a
mandoc: ./longline.man:1:9: WARNING: cannot parse date, using it 
verbatim: TH c
$


Of course, the usual 80 applies, as the old Egyptians established to be 
optimal for their hieroglyphs.


Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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