[bug #62593] clarify description of end-of-sentence detection

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #62593 (project groff):


[comment #14 comment #14:]
> [comment #9 comment #9:]
> > Yes, but I also want the pages to _look_ nice.
> 
> Sure, but the manual is currently undergoing so much revision (184 commits
this year as of today, the 169th day of the year) that things like where page
breaks occur today seem like they'll be obsolete by next week.  (At least
that's my impression, though you look at the PDF version a whole lot more
often than I do, so maybe you know of other factors that limit this.)

A while back I thought the same thing, but two factors reduce the amount of
page-break churn.

1. Texinfo forces chapters to start on a recto page.
2. Most relocations of material occur _within_ a chapter.

Together, these limit the cascade of page break changes.

That said, right now there are some pretty ugly spots in the manual where TeX
spaces paragraphs much too far apart, to prevent breaking examples, which are
automatically kept.   Further, we have one chapter (5, "gtroff Reference")
that overwhelmingly dominates the overall content.

The takeaway is that I try to be _mindful_ of keeping the page layouts
agreeable, especially in places where my editorial pen has wreaked havoc to a
level I find satisfying, but I'm not a perfectionist, let alone at each
commit.


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