On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 12:10:37PM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> :
> It's true for *roff in general. In classic [nt]roff a blank
> input line would always produce a blank line in the output.
> Usually, this is not really what you want. If (like in TeX)
> you want blank lines in the input to stand for paragraph
> breaks, you might only want half a vertical line-space in
> the output as paragraph separation. Or maybe none at all,
> and have paragraphs be indented instead.
> :
Long ago I developed the habit of putting lines consisting of only a .
wherever I wanted some white-space to help my understanding of
the document
.
\# for example
content
as opposed to the formated document
appearance.
.
It sometimes makes editing the groff input much easier.
Long ago I developed the habit of putting lines consisting of only a .
wherever I wanted some white-space to help my understanding of the document
content as opposed to the formated document appearance. It sometimes makes
editing the groff input much easier.
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