[bug #64489] [man]: want register controlling inter-sentence space size

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #64489 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Rejected               
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Summary: [PATCH] tmac/tmac.an: Make sentence space adjustable
=> [man]: want register controlling inter-sentence space size

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Follow-up Comment #1:

We already illustrate how to do this in _groff_man_style_(7).


    /home/branden/groff-stable/share/groff/site-tmac/man.local
        Put site-local changes and customizations into this file.

            .\" Use narrower indentation on terminals and similar.
            .if n .nr IN 4n
            .\" Put only one space after the end of a sentence.
            .ss 12 0 \" See groff(7).
            .\" Keep pages narrow even on wide terminals.
            .if n .if \n[LL]>78n .nr LL 78n
            .\" Ensure hyperlinks are enabled for terminals.
            .nr U 1


(The path to the "man.local" file on your system may differ.)

We don't need to add a register to _man_(7) for this because in practice, man
pages don't meddle with the value of minimum inter-word and additional
inter-sentence spacing.  They do not fling `ss` requests around as they do
`ad`, `na`, `nh`, and `hy`.  The latter are why we store the _reader's_
desired parameters in strings and registers.  Doing so enables them to be
restored.

Stripping patch annotation and rejecting accordingly.


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