Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2020 10 Jul 10:27 -0500, Steve Izma wrote:
> I think it's an abomination that a man page extends it's line
> length to fit the width of the terminal; built into the macros
> should be a 65- or 70 character maximum width. It's interesting
> that the Python Style Guide insists on a maximum line length of
> 79 characters and recommends 72. A basic premise of python design
> is *readability of code*. The main source of authors for man
> pages is, I assume, programmers.

Which is precisely why I have the following environment variable set:

# Set maximum width of man pages to 80 characters
export MANWIDTH=80

This works very well for me as I often have terminals open that are
around 165 characters wide.  This environment variable is for the man(1)
program.

- Nate

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