Hi Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > maybe there is a typo in "5.7 Manipulating Filling and Adjusting"
> > section "Register: \n[.sss]". In the sentence "Note that the \h
> > escape produces unbreakable space." the "h" maybe should actually be a
> > space (in the context of that section).
>
> No, I think it's correct, and matches behaviour.
>
> $ seq 40 | sed '1s/^/.na\n/; 20{N; s/\n/<\\h"3i">/}' | nroff | grep .
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> 20< >21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
> 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
> $
>
> It's pointing out how that's unlike .ss's just described behaviour.
Of course it is correct. But I see no relation of \h and .ss. So this
sentence (although correct) does not make sense here. But "\ " is used in the
example, for *that* escape the sentence would make sense. But if it's really
intended there then I don't mind :-)
Carsten