[tz] [man]: Bullet lists

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-10-18 04:16, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> I guess using '\[bu]' (or '\(bu') might not be appropriate for the tz
> project, as it may be less portable to old systems

We should be ok with \(bu even with older nroff; I just checked with 
Solaris 10 nroff and it generated an ASCII 'o', same as GNU/Linux.


> The change would be to use '.IP * 3' instead of '.IP * 2'.  3 is for the
> width of '*' +2.

3 is equivalent to 3n, which is too much for PDF output. I installed the 
attached, which uses \w'\(bu  'u instead of 3. This is equivalent for to 
3 for nroff, and has a better look for troff.

This patch also cleans up some of the other indenting irregularities in 
TZDB man pages; for example, plain ".TP" is good enough, and we don't 
need ".TP 10". Hope it works for you.
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