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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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@@ -180,8 +180,9 @@ as potentially ending a sentence.
.
When the formatter encounters one of these
.I end-of-sentence characters
-at the end of a line,
-or one of them is followed by two spaces on the same input line,
+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.
.