Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-01-08 08:02 +0100: > > Werner Lemberg wanted to know the status of \~. I found 17 uses > > within the groff documentation and 4 outside it. Of those 4, two > > were errors. So it's not much needed for manual pages, which is a > > good thing as it is not portable. In particular, I was unable to > > discover any corresponding ISO entity or Unicode character. > > Both `\<SP>' and `\~' (and \0) are equivalent to
But they're different in that "\~" stretches while "\<SP>" doesn't, right? I have observed problems in some environments with display of lines containing "\~" (which is why the DocBook manpages stylesheet outputs "\<SP>" instead). That doesn't have any ill effects as far as hypenation and adjusting go, because I also have the stylesheet set up such that in output from it, hyphenation is suppressed and text is adjusted only to the left margin (because IMHO it's easier to read in console output than text adjusted to both margins and hyphenated). --Mike _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
