[groff] 18/18: groff_man_style(7): Exhort portable line length.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 4a0dc98037fac7ecb77982be3cbc2a037be75030
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Jan 5 04:01:55 2025 -0600

    groff_man_style(7): Exhort portable line length.
---
 tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index fac17bd90..71c1272ca 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -2539,6 +2539,28 @@ sequences to access code points necessary in non-English 
text.
 .
 .
 .P
+AT&T
+.IR troff 's \" AT&T
+.I man
+package and those of many of its descendants format man pages
+using a line length of 65 ens
+(character cells)
+on terminals,
+whereas
+.I "groff man"
+uses 80 ens
+(and
+.MR mandoc 1
+78).
+.
+Readers with low vision may also benefit from the narrower line length.
+.
+Inspect your documents with
+.RB \(lq "nroff \-t \-r LL=65n \-man" \(rq
+to ensure that their output lines don't overrun.
+.
+.
+.P
 The two major features that control formatting in the
 .I roff
 language are requests and escape sequences.