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

From Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.slackware, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers?
Date 2015-01-08 09:07 -0500
Organization Yes
Message-ID <m8m31h02ho7@news6.newsguy.com> (permalink)
References <m8cd8c$di7$1@dont-email.me> <m8cga0$oqg$1@dont-email.me> <wwvfvbmaij1.fsf@l1AntVDjLrnP7Td3DQJ8ynzIq3lJMueXf87AxnpFoA.invalid> <7hv1ob-5mo.ln1@chris.tor>

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"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.

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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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