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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2017-02-16 14:38:12 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2017-02-16 14:38:12 +0000
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Surprisingly, groff does not support scaling units in .Bl -column
column width specifiers, so stop supporting them, too. As a side effect, this fixes an assertion failure that tb@ found with afl(1), triggered by: .Bl -column -4n
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.261 2017/02/05 22:30:29 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.262 2017/02/16 14:38:12 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 16 2017 $
.Dt MDOC 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -974,10 +974,8 @@ argument.
A columnated list.
The
.Fl width
-argument has no effect; instead, each argument specifies the width
-of one column, using either the scaling width syntax described in
-.Xr roff 7
-or the string length of the argument.
+argument has no effect; instead, the string length of each argument
+specifies the width of one column.
If the first line of the body of a
.Fl column
list is not an