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[bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete
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Dave |
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[bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:52:43 -0400 (EDT) |
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Follow-up Comment #1, bug #54101 (project groff):
The other possibility is that the documentation is correct, and groff's
noncompliance with it is a bug.
Modern typography does not add additional space between sentences. To emulate
that, documents cannot use the default .ss setting; they must explicitly
invoke this request and pass 0 as its second parameter. Groff should (and
seems to) treat this 0 as fixed rather than stretchable.
In traditional typography, I don't know whether the extra sentence space was
of fixed width, or adjusted proportionately with the word space. But when
using a nonzero SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE, groff should probably follow historical
practice in this regard.
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