Re: [Groff] [Heirloom] Double word space after :

[Clarke Echols]

On 11/12/2014 03:13 PM, Carsten Kunze wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > How about 1.5 times the wordspace after a period that ends a
> > > sentence, 1.2 times the wordspace after a colon?  Or some other
> > > fraction?
> >
> > groff's `.ss' command allows this.
>
> But groff does not distinguish between an input line that ends with a word and 
> an input line that ends with a colon?
>
> Carsten
Only input lines that end with an end-of-sentence character
(including colon) is treated other than as a normal single-space-
between-words situation -- or at least that's my understanding.

Clarke