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Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Expand portable escape section of groff_man(7).
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Expand portable escape section of groff_man(7). |
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Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:18:36 +0000 |
> > Hi Branden,
> +Can be used to (1)\~suppress recognition of end-of-sentence punctuation
> +sequences at the end of an input line, and (2)\~suppress recognition of
> +a dot or apostrophe at the beginning of a line as a troff request.
This `(1)' style doesn't otherwise appear in the page.
They don't seem needed in this short list of two.
If ambiguity results, then `foo: bar; and xyzzy.' would seem sufficient?
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