This makes sense -- thanks for the clarification!
On 21.07.23 02:47, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 09:45:17AM +0200, Bruce Allen wrote:
Dear Bjarni,
thanks very much for the corrections/patches to the man pages.
I reviewed the diff and it looks good. Something I was wondering: why are
you inserting the zero width characters '\&' in various places? I thought
that there were only needed to avoid an input sequence being misinterpreted
as a control character. But in many places where you have inserted it, I
did not realize that this was a possibility.
'\&' is, with the current layout of the source text, unnecessary,
but the position of the words can later change.
So using '\&' is just a measure in advance.
My explanation was:
Protect a period (.) or a apostrophe (') with '\&' from becoming a
control character, if it could end up at the start of a line
(by splitting the line into more lines).
Can you suggest a better explanation?
Maybe I should add after the sentence in parentheses:
"by reflowing, reorganising, reformatting the source text."
Extreme case: each word in a textual line is put in a separate line.
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