Ping^2: Re: [PATCH 2/2] man-pages.7: Update non-breaking space advice.

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi, Branden!

Ping^2

On 10/17/21 21:53, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 8/1/21 12:12 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> Hi, Alex!
>>
>> At 2021-07-31T13:42:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>>> On 7/31/21 5:45 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>>>> * Advise usage of \~ escape instead of \SPACE; the former, a groff
>>>>     extension from circa 1990, has been supported by Heirloom
>>>>     Doctools troff since 2005 and by mandoc since 2019.  The
>>>>     advantage is that \~ is an _adjustable_ non-breaking space, so it
>>>>     will typeset non-jarringly both in .EX/.EE examples when filling
>>>>     is off, and in normal running text (which is filled).
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch!
>>
>> You're welcome!  I've found no use cases for "\ " in man pages.  \~ is
>> almost always what is desired.
>>
>>>> * Say "non-breaking" instead of "nonbreaking".  These are the only
>>>>     occurrences of either in the man-pages tree, except in
>>>>     Changes.old, which uses "non-breaking".
>>>
>>> I'll do as usual and copy here an extract from man-pages(7) :) :
>>>
>>>     Hyphenation with multi, non, pre, re, sub, and so on
>>
>> Ahhh, ha.  Yes.  This is an impedance mismatch between the house styles
>> of the Linux man-pages and groff, at least as applied specifically to
>> the word "non-?breaking", which sees frequent use in discussions of
>> typesetting. >
>>> BTW, this one also doesn't apply.  I think it is probably your mailer.
>>> Can you use git-send-email(1)?
>>
>> Apparently not.  :(
>>
>> $ git send-email
>> git: 'send-email' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>> $ git --help -a | grep send
>>     imap-send            Send a collection of patches from stdin to an 
>> IMAP folder
>>     send-email           Send a collection of patches as emails
>>     send-pack            Push objects over Git protocol to another 
>> repository
>>
>> I did a web search and did not find any reports that NeoMutt does
>> violence to Git-formatted patches.  Perhaps it is GMail's fault?  (I use
>> its SMPTS server to send mail.)  Does someone on this list have
>> experience with this MUA and/or provider?  Is there a trick?
>>
>> This would explain my Michael despaired of my patch submissions even
>> when I kept their scopes under control.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Branden
>>

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Alejandro Colomar
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