From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 13:07:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07892 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:07:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.jmrodgers.com ([205.247.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07864 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: from max.jmrodgers.com (max.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.209]) by gw.jmrodgers.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20668; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:56:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:55:03 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD534F.617C4DA0.meuston@jmrodgers.com> From: Max Euston To: "'Max Euston'" , "'Ted Faber'" Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: RE: Sentence/Line break question in man pages Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:55:02 -0500 Organization: J.M. Rodgers Co., Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----- Max Euston To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message