From 5eda43815781d2f6dde50e670e33d155679e6c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:38:12 +0000 Subject: 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 --- mdoc.7 | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'mdoc.7') diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7 index ce4bd92f..6d958877 100644 --- a/mdoc.7 +++ b/mdoc.7 @@ -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 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2017 Ingo Schwarze @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-56-ge451