On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:15 +0200, "Sami Kerola" <kerolasa@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 22:38, Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (I do not understand your comment about some macros not being > > visually different from plain .B or .I.) > > Either my term, groff or pager is/are broken, or I have wooden eyes or > the different highlights do not stand out, see yourself: > > http://ut3.org/~kerolasa/groff-highlight.png > > What I tried to say; Do not get fooled that different macros will look > different so that you can refer visually in between different text > elements. Hmm, maybe you misunderstand what for example the .BI macro does? It does not mean "bold _plus_ italic" but "alternate bold and italic". And it does that perfectly. See for example the attached example file. > > Another thing: the man page formatter itself puts a double space after a > > period when in the man page source the next sentence begins on a new > > line. So when in the source a new sentence begins somewhere midline, > > it should use a double space before its initial letter. > > Are you sure it does that? Yes, it does that here, on Ubuntu Lucid 10.10, with man 2.5.7. > See the screenshot notes section third > paragraph line two, words `macros. See' has only single space in > between them. Yes, but in the source it says "appropriate groff macros. See" on a single line. When you put the "See" on a line by itself, you wil see two spaces appear before it. See the attached example file. > Even there would be two spaces I do not agree that groff > input writer should imitate output. It should be enough that words and > sentences are white space separated, groff will take care the rest. Well, being a doublespacer myself, I notice it when some sentences are single-spaced and others double; it irks. But never mind. Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.
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