Hello Branden, On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:52:59AM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2022-03-13T13:34:22+0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Without further ado, the following was found: > > > > Issue: In the right table, please add \& markup for end of sentence characters (? ! .) to get proper formatting in other locales. Thanks! > > Specifically, what happens is that if the additional inter-sentence > space amount (set with the `ss` request) is not the same as the > inter-word space amount, the columnation of this "table" (not a tbl(1) > table) gets thrown off. … > The piece of ascii(7) quoted above renders as expected if none of the > groff localization macro files are loaded, and if the user/administrator > has not changed the additional inter-sentence space amount in "troffrc" > or "man.local"--but doing so is supported. A common preference, and one > shared by the Czech, German, French, Italian[1], and Swedish groff > localization files, is to set additional inter-sentence space to zero > with `.ss 12 0`. > I've confirmed that Helge's solution works. In principle, it is fragile > to locales that have other sentence-ending characters, but I know of no > such locales--none are extant in groff, pending, or requested. > Therefore I'm +1 on this. Just to ensure that credit is where credit is due: This was a bug report by a l10n/i18n team member of Debian and the fix was developed by Colin Watson, see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692765 Thanks for confirmation and fixing it upstream, so downstreams (translations) get it automatically. Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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