Re: [groff] man 7 groff; was nroff.1.man Make editorial fixes.

> > *When writing *roff text, you'll need to break your lines anyway, if > you're calling macros.* I'm speaking much more broadly about plain-text and prose in general. Specifically, mediums such as text-editors where soft-wrapping makes it easier for authors to lose track of how much they're waf

Re: [groff] man 7 groff; was nroff.1.man Make editorial fixes.

> I advocate the "one sentence per line" rule [...] If you mean "one whole sentence per line", then I'll object. I think it's good to start each sentence on a new line, while still breaking the text at semantically convenient boundaries so that no source text line exceeds a certain limit (for ex

Re: [groff] man 7 groff; was nroff.1.man Make editorial fixes.

> > *or some other markup language that allows text reflow* Text reflow? What the hell is that? =) Seriously though, I advocate the "one sentence per line" rule in reflow-friendly languages as much as possible. Aside from

Re: [groff] man 7 groff; was nroff.1.man Make editorial fixes.

> A personal false-identification hazard: > in the court of groff I will be declared innocent if I call > myself M. Douglas McIlroy, > but will be sentenced if I call myself Mr. Douglas McIlroy, Not sure what you mean here. Groff will treat both exactly the same, it's TeX that will treat them di