[bug #51328] [PATCH] [man pages] prevent unintended inter-sentence space

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #51328 (project groff):

Wait, nope, I'm wrong about tbl(1).

[comment #1 comment #1:]
> The foregoing is unnecessary because the table entry is not in a text
block.
> 
> >       Ordinarily, a table entry is typeset rigidly.  It is not filled,
> >       broken, hyphenated, adjusted, or populated with inter-sentence
> >       space.
> (tbl(1), from groff Git HEAD)

The part "or populated with inter-sentence space" needs to go, or tbl(1) needs
to be fixed to honor this claim.  I guess I'll go see what Heirloom and Unix
V7 tbl do.


$ cat EXPERIMENTS/tbl-iss.roff 
.ss 12 120
.TS
L.
Foo.  Bar.
.TE
$ tgu -t EXPERIMENTS/tbl-iss.roff | cat -s
Foo.           Bar.



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