Re: [groff] man7/groff.man. Was Make editorial changes.

2019-07-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2019-07-01T15:02:35-0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: > I agree with Ingo about proposed descriptions of \& and sentence > spaces. Elaboration is not explanation. The context of the elaboration under discussion is portability and style advice in the groff_man(7) page. On my to-do list, and as copiousl

[groff] man7/groff.man. Was Make editorial changes.

2019-07-01 Thread Doug McIlroy
I agree with Ingo about proposed descriptions of \& and sentence spaces. Elaboration is not explanation. \& is simply a zero-length character. Its primary use is to disguise sequences that groff would otherwise unwantedly interpret. For example, "\&." at the beginning of an input line will be take