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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-09-25 06:19:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-09-25 06:19:44 +0200 |
| commit | c92b6bb51d34903dadaaa9c3123e89cc60b5aeda (patch) | |
| tree | c0c1f2b82bd7db9eda64d5add2227b722db11ea5 /man7/man-pages.7 | |
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| download | man-pages-c92b6bb51d34903dadaaa9c3123e89cc60b5aeda.tar.gz | |
man-pages.7: Add some advice about disabling hyphenation in SEE ALSO
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index cd42096552..5bcc4c9ce8 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -391,6 +391,17 @@ ordered by section number and then alphabetically by name, possibly followed by other related pages or documents. Do not terminate this with a period. +.IP +Where the SEE ALSO list contains many long manual page names, +to improve the visual result of the output, it may be useful to employ the +.I .ad l +(don't right justify) +and +.I .nh +(dont hyphenate) +directives. +Hyphenation of individual page names can be prevented +by preceding words with the string "\\%". .SS Font conventions .PP For functions, the arguments are always specified using italics, |