Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:44:18PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > >   . , : ; ( ) [ ] ? !
> > 
> > Ah, thanks for this list - I really need it :)
> 
> Look at the [doc-]punctX registers in doc-common.
> 
> > > To suppress special handling, add `\&' as a postfix, e.g. `?\&'.
> > > 
> > 
> > I was unaware of using `\&' as a postfix; I always used `\&?'.
> > Anyway, thanks for the help.
> 
> Using `\&?' makes groff emit two spaces after the `?' which is not
> usually wanted in the middle of a sentence.  Check the documentation
> of the `.cflags' request.
> 
I say it's not important because -mdoc asserts the \& postfix by
itself for text type arguments, and writing "\&?" makes it the
text type argument for -mdoc.  :-)


Cheers,
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