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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:39:41 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org, jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [gnt]roff and trailing whitespace
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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

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

Don't know.

BTW, space characters _not_ at the end of the line are handled literally,
e.g.,

.\" Don't do this:
This is a sentence. This sentence is separated from the previous one by
an abnormal number of spaces.  Whole paragraphs   can                be
misformatted                                                  manually.

Bruce

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