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


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [bug #62593] clarify description of end-of-sentence detection
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:41:42 -0400 (EDT)

Follow-up Comment #19, bug #62593 (project groff):


[comment #17 comment #17:]
> (It's less clear why someone would specify a nonbreaking space and then
force a break right after it, but that's neither here nor there.)

Oh, I addressed the wrong point.

Yes, doing


something\~
else


makes very little sense.  I'm struggling to think of a use case for it, even
if macros producing unexpected text are interposed.

However, there is a population of imaginative *roff users out there, so we may
yet see it arise.






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