On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 02:47:40 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 22:34:36 +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > Begin each sentence on a new line (or use two spaces between them, > > which is not recommended as the text contains formatting commands). > > See man-pages(7) [package "manpages"] and "info groff". > > This is a somewhat controversial style dispute in general, and I find > two spaces uglier. :) In addition vim seems to agree, and prints red > on ". " with syntax highlighting.
Let me clarify. I do not agree with the explicit two space after dot, I've always found that to be rather ugly. OTOH I find the rationale for splitting sentences on newline sound, because it reduces diff changes as it requires less text reflowing. The fact that groff considers that an implicit ". " is then minor, although still slightly annoying. :) Split lines still looks ugly and unnatural when reading the source though, so I'm still not 100% sold on that one. But I've only split lines for text I've added or changed, I don't think touching existing text just for this is worth the diff noise. Thanks, Guillem
