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([2001:a61:3aad:c501:15d9:d9fb:bc21:cb92]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f7sm455575ejd.13.2020.12.01.13.58.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:58:20 -0800 (PST) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" , Omar Sandoval , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , Jann Horn , Amir Goldstein , Aleksa Sarai , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, linux-man Subject: Re: [PATCH man-pages v6] Document encoded I/O To: "G. Branden Robinson" References: <4d1430aa-a374-7565-4009-7ec5139bf311@gmail.com> <05e1f13c-5776-961b-edc4-0d09d02b7829@gmail.com> <20201201202144.ulbfnawi2ljmm6mn@localhost.localdomain> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <437a22f6-8724-6dfc-ac40-0c947817d7a3@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:58:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201201202144.ulbfnawi2ljmm6mn@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Hi Branden, On 12/1/20 9:21 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2020-12-01T21:12:47+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>>>>> +vs. >>>>> >>>>> Please, s/vs./vs/ >>>>> See the reasons below: >>>>> >>>>> Michael (mtk), >>>>> >>>>> Here the renderer outputs a double space >>>>> (as for separating two sentences). >>>>> >>>>> Are you okay with that? >> >> Yes, that should probably be avoided. I'm not sure what the >> correct way is to prevent that in groff though. I mean, one >> could write >> >> .RI "vs.\ " unencoded_len >> >> but I think that simply creates a nonbreaking space, >> which is not exactly what is desired. > > Use the non-printing input break escape sequence, "\&", to suppress > end-of-sentence detection. This is not a groffism, it goes back to > 1970s nroff and troff. Yes, I spotted it about two minutes before your mail. And before that, I was thinking, "should we really bother Branden with a question like this?" :-) > I'm attaching a couple of pages from some introductory material I wrote > for the groff Texinfo manual in the forthcoming 1.23.0. As ever, thanks for jumping in, Branden. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/