>> I invented .ne 55 years ago and have never heard a complaint about its >> design before. It is not a conditional .bp, because that would case a >> line break, which .ne never does, nor should.
> I know it does not behave like a conditional `bp` (that was my > entire argument, after all). I have yet to see any explanation > of the rationale behind that behavior, though. Ah, it seems you missed one intended use of .ne: to forestall widows. Such a .ne will appear in the middle of a paragraph, possibly even in the middle of a sentence. If it caused a line break, it would create a false paragraph. Doug
