Re: [Groff] Double word space after :

[Dave Kemper]

On 11/14/14, Dale Snell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have in my personal Groff macros:
>
>     .char \[:] \^:\|\: \&
>
> for an old-fasioned colon.

That doesn't seem to do what you would presumably want when the colon
ends a line:

.ps 36
.vs 36
.char \[:] \^:\|\:
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x\[:] x x x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x\[:] x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

The first colon looks fine, but the second, which ends up at the end
of a line, creates a misalignment.

I'm not even sure how you'd fix that; .char defines a new glyph, which
I don't think is internally breakable.  (The \: in your definition,
then, would seem to have no effect.)