Hi Brian, At 2024-06-13T13:29:44-0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Regarding the nonbreaking spaces part: I'm not too practiced with > groff, but the wording around the \[ti] character is confusing. > AFAICT, I actually need to spell my expression like the following? > > 0.2\~*\~1024\~=\~205 Yes, that puts nonbreaking (but adjustable) spaces between the numeric literals and operators. > At least, with trial and error, that's what appears to render correctly, > whereas \[ti] renders as a literal tilde. Yes. > Is man-pages.7 [1] incorrect? [...] > [1] from `man man-pages`: > "In this case, it may be worth using nonbreaking spaces (\[ti]) at > suitable places in the command." It looks that way. I suspect that, in the man-pages.7 source, something much like... nonbreaking spaces .RB ( \[rs]\[ti] ) at suitable places ...was meant. Regards, Branden
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