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@afresh1 afresh1 commented May 6, 2019

The incantation for mandoc to set the width is -Owidth=$MANWIDTH

See OpenBSD ToMan.pm r1.11, commitid: l7y5bAdgD9ZaOWMx
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/cpan/Pod-Perldoc/lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm?rev=1.11&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

The incantation for mandoc to set the width is -Owidth=$MANWIDTH

See OpenBSD ToMan.pm r1.11, commitid: l7y5bAdgD9ZaOWMx
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/cpan/Pod-Perldoc/lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm?rev=1.11&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
@afresh1 afresh1 changed the title Teach perldoc to it to support MANWIDTH for mandoc Teach perldoc to support MANWIDTH for mandoc May 6, 2019
@afresh1 afresh1 force-pushed the Respect-MANWIDTH-for-mandoc branch from dd97cc2 to 52ada67 Compare May 6, 2019 03:01
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I've just taken over the maintenance of Pod::Perldoc, so I'll look into this. I know it's years old, and it might take me a bit to catch up.

@briandfoy briandfoy added Type: enhancement improve a feature that already exists Status: stalled something is blocking progress Priority: low get to this whenever labels Dec 5, 2023
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It's kinda weird that this is in _collect_nroff_switches, but that's the way it is.

@briandfoy briandfoy merged commit ff52037 into briandfoy:master Dec 7, 2023
@briandfoy briandfoy self-assigned this Dec 7, 2023
@briandfoy briandfoy added Status: accepted the fix is accepted and removed Status: stalled something is blocking progress Priority: low get to this whenever labels Dec 7, 2023
@briandfoy briandfoy added Status: released there is a new release with this fix and removed Status: accepted the fix is accepted labels Feb 16, 2025
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