badly formatted man pages

[teuben]

This is a very old issue. With the "manpdf" script a man page can be turned into a pretty pdf file, but tab alignments (e.g. in the HISTORY section) is different from the terminal version.
Generally we use ".ta +1.5i +5.5i"

Secondly, to gives examples of code, we should not use the ".nf .fi" section, but use ".EX .EE". Example of this fix is in mkplummer and hackdens.

There probably are more issues. man pages are probably considered legacy, but darn useful in a terminal.

[teuben]

It seems ".ta +1.25i +4.5i" is a better default for the output PDF, but tight for terminals.

[teuben]

Another new formatting idea is to put ".br" before the default. But now we have several ways how to write the default:

[Default: 1.0]
[1.0]
Default: 1.0
default: 1.0