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diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi index 41c64c766..6afc81f94 100644 --- a/doc/groff.texi +++ b/doc/groff.texi @@ -4778,12 +4778,17 @@ behavior can be modified; see @ref{Blank Line Traps}. Macro packages may discourage or disable the blank line method of paragraphing in favor of their own macros. +@cindex leading spaces +@cindex spaces, leading and trailing +@cindex trailing spaces on text lines @cindex leading space macro (@code{lsm}) A line that begins with one or more spaces causes a break. The spaces are output at the beginning of the next line without being @emph{adjusted} (see below); however, this behavior can be modified (@pxref{Leading Space Traps}). Again, macro packages may provide other -methods of producing indented paragraphs. +methods of producing indented paragraphs. Trailing spaces on text lines +are ignored.@footnote{``Text lines'' are defined in @ref{Requests and +Macros}.} What if there is no next input word? Or the file ends before enough words have been collected to fill an output line? The end of the file @@ -4796,17 +4801,13 @@ cause breaks, implicitly or explicitly. This is discussed in @node Adjustment, Tab Stops, Breaking, Text @subsection Adjustment -@cindex leading spaces -@cindex spaces, leading and trailing -@cindex extra spaces -@cindex trailing spaces +@cindex extra spaces between words After GNU @code{troff} performs an automatic line break, it then tries to @dfn{adjust} the line: inter-word spaces are widened until the text -reaches the right margin. Extra spaces between words are preserved, but -trailing spaces on an input line are ignored. Leading spaces are -handled as noted above. Text can be adjusted to the left or right -margins only (instead of both), or centered; see @ref{Manipulating -Filling and Adjustment}. +reaches the right margin. Extra spaces between words are preserved. +Leading and trailing spaces are handled as noted above. Text can be +adjusted to the left or right margins only (instead of both), or +centered; see @ref{Manipulating Filling and Adjustment}. @c --------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -11153,6 +11154,7 @@ defined as empty, and a warning of type @samp{mac} is emitted If @code{ds} is called with only one argument, @var{name} is defined as an empty string. +@cindex trailing spaces in string definitions and appendments @cindex comments, with @code{ds} @cindex @code{ds} request, and comments @strong{Caution:} Unlike other requests, the second argument to the |