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man pages: how to turn off hyphenation and justification?
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Chris F.A. Johnson
Aug 31, 2011, 8:26:34 AM8/31/11
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How does one turn off hyphenation and justification in man pages?
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Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
Chris F.A. Johnson
Nov 30, 2011, 7:10:16 AM11/30/11
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On 2011-08-31, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> How does one turn off hyphenation and justification in man pages?
Some years ago I found an answer to this, but I can't find it now.
> How does one turn off hyphenation and justification in man pages?
Does anyone know?
Chris F.A. Johnson
Nov 30, 2011, 7:31:27 AM11/30/11
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On 2011-11-30, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2011-08-31, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> How does one turn off hyphenation and justification in man pages?
>
> Some years ago I found an answer to this, but I can't find it now.
>
> Does anyone know?
After a lot of hunting and experimentation, putting this in
> On 2011-08-31, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> How does one turn off hyphenation and justification in man pages?
>
> Some years ago I found an answer to this, but I can't find it now.
>
> Does anyone know?
/usr/share/groff/site-tmac/man.local worked:
.hy 0
.if n .ad l
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