diff --git a/packages/man/build.sh b/packages/man/build.sh
index edfbed15a..08f29eacf 100644
--- a/packages/man/build.sh
+++ b/packages/man/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://mdocml.bsd.lv/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Man page viewer from the mandoc toolset"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.13.4
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="less,libandroid-glob,libsqlite"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
diff --git a/packages/man/term_ascii.c.patch b/packages/man/term_ascii.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0f07c576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/man/term_ascii.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+The man implementation from mandoc does not adjust its output size to the terminal. As this is nice to have on smaller screens such as Termux we patch this in using the following patch adapted from
+
+https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fa.openbsd.tech/AEDMaZmzSU4
+
+diff -u -r ../mdocml-1.13.4/term_ascii.c ./term_ascii.c
+--- ../mdocml-1.13.4/term_ascii.c	2016-07-14 07:13:40.000000000 -0400
++++ ./term_ascii.c	2016-09-26 18:06:08.339737451 -0400
+@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
+ #include "config.h"
+ 
+ #include <sys/types.h>
++#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+ 
+ #include <assert.h>
+ #if HAVE_WCHAR
+@@ -64,12 +65,22 @@
+ 	char		*v;
+ #endif
+ 	struct termp	*p;
++	struct winsize	ws;
++	int		tfd;
+ 
+ 	p = mandoc_calloc(1, sizeof(struct termp));
+ 
+ 	p->line = 1;
+ 	p->tabwidth = 5;
+ 	p->defrmargin = p->lastrmargin = 78;
++	if ((tfd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR, 0)) != -1) {
++		if (ioctl(tfd, TIOCGWINSZ, &ws) != -1) {
++			if (ws.ws_col < 80)
++				p->defrmargin = p->lastrmargin = ws.ws_col - 2;
++		}
++		close(tfd);
++	}
++
+ 	p->fontq = mandoc_reallocarray(NULL,
+ 	     (p->fontsz = 8), sizeof(enum termfont));
+ 	p->fontq[0] = p->fontl = TERMFONT_NONE;