I'm probably overlooking something obvious here, but it's eluded me long enough to type and send this message.
Consider this three-line input: .ss 12 48 \[lq]He said `seven.'\[rq] John frowned. (The first line merely makes the sentence space large enough to be visibly obvious; it has no effect on the core issue.) groff recognizes that a sentence space should come between the right double-quote character and the word "John," because the . has cflags property 1 set (i.e., it is an end-of-sentence character), and both end-quote characters have cflags property 32 set (i.e., they are ignored for sentence-detection purposes.) To improve typographic quality, it is common to insert a thin space between an adjacent single-quote and double-quote character. In this example, the second input line would thus become: \[lq]He said `seven.'\|\[rq] This addition, however, prevents groff from recognizing the period as an end-of-sentence character, because while both end-quote characters have cflags property 32 set, the thin space does not. The obvious solution is to set this property for the \| character, which should be done with the following line: .cflags 32 \| But this emits the warning "normal or special character expected (got a horizontal space)" and has no effect on the output. What's the correct way to get groff to ignore the thin-space character in end-of-sentence detection?
