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[bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete


From: Dave
Subject: [bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 05:21:37 -0400 (EDT)
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Follow-up Comment #10, bug #54101 (project groff):

[comment #9 comment #9:]
> Fixed, as in documentation rewritten, in
866bc203326528237f08f7debe9061ba8f430e1e.

This commit contains some great improvements to the entire .ss section of the
manual.  But it doesn't fix the specific problem cited in this bug report.

The core problem is that when adjusting, groff stretches word spaces and not
sentence spaces, yet the documentation states (or at least strongly implies)
groff may stretch both.

The original problematic sentence (as documented in comment #0) was "In fill
mode, the values specify the minimum distance."  The values in question are
the two parameters to .ss, only one of which (in current groff) is actually a
minimum distance; the other is a fixed distance.  The cited commit recasts
this sentence as "When adjusting, the values specify minimum distances." 
While overall a better wording, it retains the inaccuracy of the original.

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