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From: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy>
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The manual page for 'mdoc.samples' says:

   Trailing Blank Space Characters
     Troff can be confused by blank space characters at the end of a line.  It
     is a wise preventive measure to globally remove all blank spaces from
     <blank-space><end-of-line> character sequences.  Should the need arise to
     force a blank character at the end of a line, it may be forced with an
     unpaddable space and the `\&' escape character.  For example,
     `string\ \&'.

Yet I find that most of our manual pages suffer from this malady.  Is it
really a serious problem that is worth correcting?

Koshy
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