Re: [PATCH man-pages v6] Document encoded I/O

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Hi Branden,

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.

Yes, I spotted it about two minutes before your mail. And before that, I 
was thinking, "should we really bother Branden with a question like 
this?" :-)

> I'm attaching a couple of pages from some introductory material I wrote
> for the groff Texinfo manual in the forthcoming 1.23.0.

As ever, thanks for jumping in, Branden.

Cheers,

Michael


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Michael Kerrisk
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