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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes
In-Reply-To: <19990828103953.A34528@holly.calldei.com> from Chris Costello at "Aug 28, 1999 10:39:53 am"
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> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> > A sentence ends
> > .Ar here .
> > But this new one has a single space preceeding it.
> 
>    Does adding a space after the `.' at the end of your line
> help?

Please, no trailing white space :-)!  

Seriously, I think that all of the current mdoc macros that allow 
puncuation characters to be specified screw this up and only add one space.  
Mdoc should be fixed to add two spaces in this case, and then if
the man page author really does only want one space, they
can do it with the existing Ns macro (no space).

-Mike
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Mike Pritchard
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