Make the default left text margin configurable from the command line,

just like the default right margin already is.  This may be useful for
people with expensive screen real estate.  Besides, it helps automated
man(7) to mdoc(7) output comparisons to validate -Tman output.
ok kristaps@ on an earlier version

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index a7354e6d..4cdc6457 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -234,6 +234,15 @@ The following
 .Fl O
 arguments are accepted:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm indent Ns = Ns Ar indent
+The left margin for normal text is set to
+.Ar indent
+blank characters instead of the default of five for
+.Xr mdoc 7
+and seven for
+.Xr man 7 .
+Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting,
+for example overful lines or ugly line breaks.
 .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
 The output width is set to
 .Ar width ,