2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index 981bce68..b1eb9899 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -301,8 +301,7 @@ Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting,
 for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks.
 .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
 The output width is set to
-.Ar width ,
-which will normalise to \(>=58.
+.Ar width .
 .El
 .Ss HTML Output
 Output produced by
diff --git a/manpath.c b/manpath.c
index f0f934ac..fa0791ba 100644
--- a/manpath.c
+++ b/manpath.c
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ manconf_output(struct manoutput *conf, const char *cp, int fromfile)
 			mandoc_asprintf(&oldval, "%zu", conf->width);
 			break;
 		}
-		conf->width = strtonum(cp, 58, 1000, &errstr);
+		conf->width = strtonum(cp, 1, 1000, &errstr);
 		if (errstr == NULL)
 			return 0;
 		warnx("-O width=%s is %s", cp, errstr);