Re: Zero Width Space

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Ingo,

On 6/5/22 19:09, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> >       .B foo\&
> >       bar
> >
> > If that were a no-op, I wouldn't write it (why would I write something
> > that does nothing???).
>
> In fact, it does *not* do anything in this particular situation either.

[...]
> Or are you thinking about
>
>    .TH TEST 1
>    .IB italic bold\c
>    roman
>
> which prints the tree words in three different fonts, with no
> intervening whitespace on the output side?

Yup.  You got what I had in mind.  Sorry for the nonsense.  I'm happy 
that at least my confusion triggered an interesting discussion about \c  :-}

Sooo, both "no-op escape" and "dummy character|escape|whatever" seem 
good things to me.

> On a tangent, i just noticed that
[...]

And yes, the different behavior of

.B foo\c
bar

between groff(1) and mandoc(1) surprised me too.  I, as you, thought 
that the intuitive behavior would be as [.BR foo bar], and reported it 
to the mailing list a few months ago.


Cheers,

Alex

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