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Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers?

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On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:07:53 -0500, Bud Frede wrote:

> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> writes:
> 
>> On 2015-01-07, Richard Kettlewell wrote: ...
>>>   .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation;
>>>   it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad
>>>   l
>>>   .nh
>>>
>>> You could probably make this global by modifying /etc/groff/man.local.
>>
>>    I add this to /etc/groff/man.local; it turns off hyphenation and
>>    justification:
>>
>> .hy 0
>> .if n .ad l
>> .na
>> .nh
> 
> Nice. On Debian-descended Linux systems (which is mostly what I've been
> using over the years), I alias man to man --nj --nh  I'll keep your
> method in my notes for when I'm using other flavors of Linux.
========
~:ls /etc/groff*
/bin/ls: cannot access /etc/groff*: No such file or directory

~:man --nj --nh groff
man: unrecognized option '--nj'

!! Screw U !! Shoot all the ballet dancers !!

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Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? not.socialnetwork@gmail.com - 2015-01-04 22:01 +0000
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? "John K.  Herreshoff" <Nope@not.here> - 2015-01-04 17:15 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-01-04 20:46 -0800
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-01-04 17:54 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-07 12:09 +0000
      Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-01-07 09:08 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-01-07 12:21 +0000
      Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-01-07 09:19 -0500
        Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 09:49 +0000
      Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> - 2015-01-08 04:33 -0500
        Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-01-08 09:07 -0500
          Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 07:35 +0000
            Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-01-09 20:49 +0000
            Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> - 2015-01-15 23:51 -0500
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-01-04 23:05 -0500
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2015-01-05 15:31 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 04:39 +0000

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