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author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-05-04 16:57:14 -0500 |
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committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-05-04 18:31:52 -0500 |
commit | 34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1 (patch) | |
tree | 0302c22237e385772ed9e8354063199fcbdf0ec0 /doc | |
parent | 2c9bbaff24abe045da23add93331305b667f6075 (diff) | |
download | groff-git-34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1.tar.gz |
[docs]: Tighten wording.
This recovers good page breaks in roff(7).
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi index 99626b398..9f410b4b7 100644 --- a/doc/groff.texi +++ b/doc/groff.texi @@ -5007,12 +5007,12 @@ Welcome to groff. @cindex sentence space @cindex space between sentences @cindex French spacing -GNU @code{troff} does this by flagging certain characters (normally -@samp{!}, @samp{?}, and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence. -When GNU @code{troff} encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence -characters} at the end of an input line, or one of them is followed by -two (unescaped) spaces on the same input line, it appends an inter-word -space followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output. +GNU @code{troff} flags certain characters (normally @samp{!}, @samp{?}, +and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence. When GNU @code{troff} +encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence characters} at the end of +an input line, or one of them is followed by two (unescaped) spaces on +the same input line, it appends an inter-word space followed by an +inter-sentence space in the output. @Example R. Harper subscribes to a maxim of P. T. Barnum. |