Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:39:41 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org, jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bde@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: [gnt]roff and trailing whitespace Message-ID: <199811270439.PAA21675@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>The manual page for 'mdoc.samples' says: > > Trailing Blank Space Characters > Troff can be confused by blank space characters at the end of a line. It >Yet I find that most of our manual pages suffer from this malady. Is it >really a serious problem that is worth correcting? Don't know. BTW, space characters _not_ at the end of the line are handled literally, e.g., .\" Don't do this: This is a sentence. This sentence is separated from the previous one by an abnormal number of spaces. Whole paragraphs can be misformatted manually. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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