Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:55:02 -0500 From: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> To: "'Max Euston'" <meuston@jmrodgers.com>, "'Ted Faber'" <faber@ISI.EDU> Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sentence/Line break question in man pages Message-ID: <01BD534F.617C4DA0.meuston@jmrodgers.com>
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On Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:48 PM, Max Euston
[SMTP:meuston@jmrodgers.com] wrote:
> On Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:29 PM, Ted Faber [SMTP:faber@ISI.EDU]
wrote:
> > I'd try
> >
> > .Tn FIFO ". "
> > ^^
> Actually that was already in there (with one trailing space), but it does
> not work. I've tried several ways to "escape" the space, but I can only
> get 1 or 3 spaces 8-(. I'm still experimenting, but this may be a tough
> problem. It seems that the existing man pages don't address this issue
> (they use 2 spaces between sentences, but use only 1 when ending a
sentence
> with a macro).
>
> >
> > If you haven't checked out the doc(7) man page, you should.
> >
> I didn't see this one. I will check it out.
>
I just started reading this - just what I was looking for - Thanks
(actually mdoc(7) and mdoc.samples(7) :-)). I tried a few more variations
and got the following to work:
".Tn FIFO . \& " (quotes added for clarity).
^ ^ ^ <--spaces
There may be a "better" or "cleaner" way to do this, so I will keep reading
and experimenting.
Thanks,
Max
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