Re: [PATCH] Help Viewer - mouse issues

[Grigory Trenin <gtrenin gmail com>]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Implementing either solution would not remove the necessity of this:
>
> [...]
> need to revise the help files for all languages, to check
> if they fit in the window, and fix them if necessary.
> [...]
>
> To fix this there should be no preformatted pages involved, IMO. But
> I may be wrong.

Well, sometimes preformatting is useful.
Of course, it shouldn't be used for regular text, as it is used now.
But in some nodes config files samples (like mc.menu) are given,
and it is necessary to preserve indents and avoid line wraping
for them.

Besides, man2hlp handles a limited number of groff commands,
it doesn't handle ".ce" command for example, so it is not
possible to center lines with man2hlp. It is done by
preformatting now. If we decide to eliminate all preformatting,
it is necessary to patch man2hlp to center lines.

I don't know whether the result will cover the efforts.
May be it is easier just to leave that space on the right as is,
and make it mouse-clickable?