"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> writes:
> No--if you mean the two examples I think you do, I was illustrating how > things go wrong if the amount of supplemental inter-sentence space is > _not_ the formatter-plus-English-"groff locale"'s default. Ah! Thank you, now I think I understand. The thing that I had misunderstood was that I thought the change would cause groff to force the spacing after " to the intersentence spacing, and what I am understanding now is that the change would cause groff to preserve the existing spacing after " instead of adjusting it to the intersentence spacing. Do I now have this correct? If that's the case, then I'm less concerned about that change since it sticks a bit closer to the spacing on the input. I think the main place where it might result in unwanted output is the case where regular text ends with `."` at the end of a line. Currently, when reflowing that text, I believe nroff would add two spaces after `."`, and I think under your proposal it would instead add one space, and thus would be inconsistent with the default intersentence spacing? -- Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
