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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-23 20:15:12 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-24 20:34:42 -0500
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[docs]: Further clarify end-of-sentence detection.
(One hopes.) * doc/groff.texi (Sentences): * man/roff.7 (Concepts): Do it. Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64091>. Thanks to Ingo Schwarze and Dave Kemper for the report. Also fix whitespace nit. Thanks to Dave Kemper, he of the unflinching osprey gaze.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 948818ab7..b0ef7a91e 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5010,9 +5010,9 @@ Welcome to groff.
GNU @code{troff} does this by flagging certain characters (normally
@samp{!}, @samp{?}, and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence.
When GNU @code{troff} encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence
-characters} at the end of a line, or one of them is followed by two
-spaces on the same input line, it appends an inter-word space followed
-by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output.
+characters} at the end of an input line, or one of them is followed by
+two (unescaped) spaces on the same input line, it appends an inter-word
+space followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output.
@Example
R. Harper subscribes to a maxim of P. T. Barnum.
@@ -6388,7 +6388,7 @@ invalid input characters are @code{0x00}, @code{0x08}, @code{0x0B},
@code{0x09}, @code{0x0B}, @code{0x0D}--@code{0x14},
@code{0x17}--@code{0x1F}, and
@code{0x30}--@code{0x3F}.@footnote{Historically, control characters like
-ASCII STX, ETX, and BEL (@key{Control+B},@key{ Control+C}, and
+ASCII STX, ETX, and BEL (@key{Control+B}, @key{Control+C}, and
@key{Control+G}) have been observed in @code{roff} documents,
particularly in macro packages employing them as delimiters with the
output comparison operator to try to avoid collisions with the content