Justification regression with groff 1.23.0 (?) about podlators HOT 4 CLOSED

Yeah, I noticed this too and it does seem to be related to .IP/.TP. I also suspect that this is a groff regression. I need to join the groff mailing list and inquire.

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This is because of the addition of:

.  ad \\*[AD]

to the an-write-paragraph-tag function in the an macro set, so far as I can tell. I have inquired on the groff mailing list if there's some way that I can support the intent of the AD register but still change the default under nroff to ragged right justification instead of full justification.

BTW, I believe the intent of this AD macro is that you can set MANROFFOPT to -dAD=l and get ragged right justification for every man page, not just the ones generated by pod2man.

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Ah, thanks for the investigation! I've now set MANROFFOPT in my environment to get a uniform style, although it would indeed be best if what pod2man generates could be formatted as before. :)

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