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Branden Robinson" , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: Omar Sandoval , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , Jann Horn , Amir Goldstein , Aleksa Sarai , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, linux-man References: <4d1430aa-a374-7565-4009-7ec5139bf311@gmail.com> <05e1f13c-5776-961b-edc4-0d09d02b7829@gmail.com> <20201201202144.ulbfnawi2ljmm6mn@localhost.localdomain> From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" Message-ID: <66e17b5b-a63e-9551-02a1-ff8bcfa45b93@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:34:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201201202144.ulbfnawi2ljmm6mn@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Hi Branden, A good read, as always! Thanks, Alex On 12/1/20 9:21 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2020-12-01T21:12:47+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>>>>> +vs. >>>>> >>>>> Please, s/vs./vs/ >>>>> See the reasons below: >>>>> >>>>> Michael (mtk), >>>>> >>>>> Here the renderer outputs a double space >>>>> (as for separating two sentences). >>>>> >>>>> Are you okay with that? >> >> Yes, that should probably be avoided. I'm not sure what the >> correct way is to prevent that in groff though. I mean, one >> could write >> >> .RI "vs.\ " unencoded_len >> >> but I think that simply creates a nonbreaking space, >> which is not exactly what is desired. > > Use the non-printing input break escape sequence, "\&", to suppress > end-of-sentence detection. This is not a groffism, it goes back to > 1970s nroff and troff. > > I'm attaching a couple of pages from some introductory material I wrote > for the groff Texinfo manual in the forthcoming 1.23.0. > > Regards, > Branden >