Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?

2022-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Branden, > At any rate, groff_man(7) in groff 1.22.4 does in fact cover this. ... >\& Zero-width space. Append to an input line to prevent an > end-of-sentence punctuation sequence from being > recognized as such, or insert at the beginning of an >

Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?

2022-05-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Ralph, At 2022-05-02T09:42:12+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Branden, > > > At any rate, groff_man(7) in groff 1.22.4 does in fact cover this. > ... > >\& Zero-width space. Append to an input line to prevent > > an end-of-sentence punctuation sequence from being >

Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?

2022-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Branden, > I could just as well say: > > "Many people have found their way to a better life through the gospels." Yes, I expect they have. > ...see how condescending that is? No, it doesn't come across like that to me. You seem to write many words when fewer would do, whether in emails or d

Re: rendering man pages with a customized an-old.tmac (was: Release Candidate 1.23.0.rc1)

2022-05-02 Thread Hans Unzner
Hi Branden, thanks a lot for your constructive feedback! Am 02.05.22 um 02:41 schrieb G. Branden Robinson: But now I want to use a modified version of an-old.tmac without replacing it in the /usr/share/groff/ directory. Is it possible to do that? I always get a blank output when passing the