.TH SPACE-EOS-MAN 1 "December 22, 2013" OpenBSD .SH NAME SPACE-EOS-MAN \- end-of-sentence spacing in man(7) documents .SH DESCRIPTION This is a sentence. There is a double space before the next one. .PP Here is a full stop .B at the end of a macro. It causes a double space, too. .PP She said: "Here is another sentence." And it was detected even with quotation marks. (Really.) And within parantheses. .PP A dot in parantheses (.) is not a full stop. .PP A dot in the middle of an input line . is not a full stop. .PP At the end of an input line, even an escaped dot \&. is regarded as a full stop.