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-rw-r--r-- | man/roff.7.man | 8 |
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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. diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man index 736afbc57..d53b743c7 100644 --- a/man/roff.7.man +++ b/man/roff.7.man @@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The exceptions separate words. .P A .I roff -formatter attempts to detect the boundaries between sentences, +formatter attempts to detect boundaries between sentences, and supplies additional inter-sentence space between them. . -It does this by flagging certain characters +It flags certain characters (normally .RB \[lq] !\& \[rq], .RB \[lq] ?\& \[rq], @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ 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. +followed by an inter-sentence space in the output. . The dummy character escape sequence .B \[rs]& @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ In the distinction between those two elements is not always obvious (and a full discussion is beyond our scope). . -To roughly characterize, +In brief, \[lq]A\[rq] is a character when we consider it in the abstract: to make it a glyph, we must select a typeface with which to render it, |