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 >
