On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 09:45:17AM +0200, Bruce Allen wrote:
> Dear Bjarni,
>
> thanks very much for the corrections/patches to the man pages.
>
> I reviewed the diff and it looks good. Something I was wondering: why are
> you inserting the zero width characters '\&' in various places? I thought
> that there were only needed to avoid an input sequence being misinterpreted
> as a control character. But in many places where you have inserted it, I
> did not realize that this was a possibility.
>
'\&' is, with the current layout of the source text, unnecessary,
but the position of the words can later change.
So using '\&' is just a measure in advance.
My explanation was:
Protect a period (.) or a apostrophe (') with '\&' from becoming a
control character, if it could end up at the start of a line
(by splitting the line into more lines).
Can you suggest a better explanation?
Maybe I should add after the sentence in parentheses:
"by reflowing, reorganising, reformatting the source text."
Extreme case: each word in a textual line is put in a separate line.
