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[bug #62816] rename the \& escape...again
From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[bug #62816] rename the \& escape...again |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:07:50 -0400 (EDT) |
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #62816 (project groff):
[comment #5 comment #5:]
> It's probably worth cataloguing here all the use cases for \& that have been
cited so far in discussion. This is likely also an incomplete list.
>
> * placing a literal control character at the beginning of an input line
> * preventing adjacent characters from being kerned or made a ligature
> * suppressing end-of-sentence detection
> * making marginalia (numbers or marks) perceive a line as nonblank
Thanks for enumerating these, Dave. Except for the third, I _think_ all also
apply to the (groff) `\)` escape sequence.
> * in tbl, aligning numeric columns
> * in tbl, marking empty entries
>
> (The last two items sound to me like distinct uses, but they may be variants
of the same thing; I don't know tbl at all. I got these respectively from
http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-06/msg00053.html and
http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-06/msg00017.html.)
They are not the same thing; I implemented the second of these post-groff
1.22.4.
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