Re: [Groff] Typo in HTML documentation § 5.7?

[Carsten Kunze]

Hi Ralph,

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> > maybe there is a typo in "5.7 Manipulating Filling and Adjusting"
> > section "Register: \n[.sss]".  In the sentence "Note that the \h
> > escape produces unbreakable space." the "h" maybe should actually be a
> > space (in the context of that section).
> 
> No, I think it's correct, and matches behaviour.
> 
>     $ seq 40 | sed '1s/^/.na\n/; 20{N; s/\n/<\\h"3i">/}' | nroff | grep .
>     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
>     20<                              >21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
>     31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
>     $
> 
> It's pointing out how that's unlike .ss's just described behaviour.

Of course it is correct.  But I see no relation of \h and .ss.  So this 
sentence (although correct) does not make sense here.  But "\ " is used in the 
example, for *that* escape the sentence would make sense.  But if it's really 
intended there then I don't mind :-)

Carsten