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On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:38:24PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> > BTW, the reason why examples like this:
> >
> > # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> > ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
> > localtime(time);
> >
> > are *not* written
> >
> >
> > # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> > ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) =
> > localtime(time);
> >
> > is due to the default nroff line length.
>
> What is the default nroff line length?
I believe it traditionally has been 65 characters. (Well, 6.5 inches,
with 10 characters per inch.) However, most lines (except for headings)
also end up indented by some amount (traditionally 5 characters), and
items in a list (such as this list in perfunc.pod) are indented further.
Contending against this, that line is in a verbatim block, and is rendered
in "nofill" mode, so it can overflow the 65 character limit. What happens
then is not well defined.
Practically speaking, either will probably render ok on most man page
viewers these days.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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