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

From	Unknown <dog@gmail.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	2015-01-09 09:49 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<pan.2015.01.09.09.57.36@gmail.com> (permalink)
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On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:19:24 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:

> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> writes:
> 
>> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
>>> not.socialnetwork@gmail.com writes:
>>>> For how many more years are we going to tolerate the burden of
>>>> accomodating the whims of the ART students?
>>>>
>>>> The need to read masses of `man *` which are contaminated by the
>>>> NOISE of eg:
>>>> "..The default quali-
>>>> fier  is  trace....
>>>
>>> Rant makes no sense.
>>>
>>> You can use any formatter you like for man pages, including troff
>>> which is capable of rendering tables with real borders, proportional
>>> justified fonts, multiple font sizes, bold, italic,
>>> and line drawings.
>>>
>>> I use Emacs (M-x man), and get nicely formatted, easily searchable
>>> pages.
>>
>> M-x man just uses the troff output, so has the same justification and
> 
> I think you mean nroff output.
> Emacs sets $TERM to "dumb".
> 
>> hyphenation issues that the OP was complaining about.  He’s not unique:
>> some man pages turn it off, for instance those generated by Pod::Man:
>>
>>   .\" 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.
>>
>> Above is based on Debian wheezy.
> 
> Never heard the complaint before.
> I suppose the  package owner might listen, the current options available
> are:
> 
> -rHY=flags Set  hyphenation flags.  Possible  values are 1  to hyphenate
>               without restrictions, 2 to not  hyphenate the last word on
>               a page,  4 to not hyphenate  the last two characters  of a
>               word, and 8 to not hyphenate the first two characters of a
>               word.  These values are additive; the default is 14.

No! The default should be PLAIN.
For the arty-types who want music, lavender-scent and bouncing-monkeys
add extra switches. And to avoid such problems in future, best just
shoot 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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