Re: [PATCH 2/2] man-pages.7: Update non-breaking space advice.

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi, Alex!

At 2021-07-31T13:42:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 7/31/21 5:45 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * Advise usage of \~ escape instead of \SPACE; the former, a groff
> >    extension from circa 1990, has been supported by Heirloom
> >    Doctools troff since 2005 and by mandoc since 2019.  The
> >    advantage is that \~ is an _adjustable_ non-breaking space, so it
> >    will typeset non-jarringly both in .EX/.EE examples when filling
> >    is off, and in normal running text (which is filled).
> 
> Thanks for the patch!

You're welcome!  I've found no use cases for "\ " in man pages.  \~ is
almost always what is desired.

> > * Say "non-breaking" instead of "nonbreaking".  These are the only
> >    occurrences of either in the man-pages tree, except in
> >    Changes.old, which uses "non-breaking".
> 
> I'll do as usual and copy here an extract from man-pages(7) :) :
> 
>    Hyphenation with multi, non, pre, re, sub, and so on

Ahhh, ha.  Yes.  This is an impedance mismatch between the house styles
of the Linux man-pages and groff, at least as applied specifically to
the word "non-?breaking", which sees frequent use in discussions of
typesetting.

> BTW, this one also doesn't apply.  I think it is probably your mailer.
> Can you use git-send-email(1)?

Apparently not.  :(

$ git send-email
git: 'send-email' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
$ git --help -a | grep send
   imap-send            Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder
   send-email           Send a collection of patches as emails
   send-pack            Push objects over Git protocol to another repository

I did a web search and did not find any reports that NeoMutt does
violence to Git-formatted patches.  Perhaps it is GMail's fault?  (I use
its SMPTS server to send mail.)  Does someone on this list have
experience with this MUA and/or provider?  Is there a trick?

This would explain my Michael despaired of my patch submissions even
when I kept their scopes under control.

Regards,
Branden

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