From c92b6bb51d34903dadaaa9c3123e89cc60b5aeda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:19:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man-pages.7: Add some advice about disabling hyphenation in SEE ALSO Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/man-pages.7 | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index cd4209655..5bcc4c9ce 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -391,6 +391,17 @@ ordered by section number and then alphabetically by name, possibly followed by other related pages or documents. Do not terminate this with a period. +.IP +Where the SEE ALSO list contains many long manual page names, +to improve the visual result of the output, it may be useful to employ the +.I .ad l +(don't right justify) +and +.I .nh +(dont hyphenate) +directives. +Hyphenation of individual page names can be prevented +by preceding words with the string "\\%". .SS Font conventions .PP For functions, the arguments are always specified using italics,