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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-07-15 19:20:30 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-07-15 19:20:30 +0000 |
commit | a1ad72824dd4e1389339062d26170a255f62f29d (patch) | |
tree | 6c7282722af6e2c90d573cd9418b43ea4de77556 /roff.7 | |
parent | 67dcc2e5b969bc3dc00fcdd852cb6fd4ed9a2107 (diff) | |
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explain escaping of end-of-sentence characters;
missing info reported by Ian <ropers at gmail dot com> on misc@
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.113 2019/07/01 23:30:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.114 2019/07/15 19:20:30 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010-2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 1 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 15 2019 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -315,12 +315,18 @@ delimiters The proper spacing is also intelligently preserved if a sentence ends at the boundary of a macro line. .Pp +If an input line happens to end with a period, exclamation or question +mark that isn't the end of a sentence, append a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& . +.Pp Examples: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact Do not end sentences mid-line like this. Instead, end a sentence like this. A macro would end like this: \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&. +An abbreviation at the end of an input line needs escaping, e.g.\e& +like this. .Ed .Sh REQUEST SYNTAX A request or macro line consists of: |