Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 02/26] Eliminate or replace blank lines.

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2018-06-17T22:26:00+0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:34 -0400, g.branden.robinson@gmail.com wrote:
> > Blank lines are bad roff style.  Per CSTR #54, blank lines are the
> > equivalent of ".sp 1", but in GNU roff this can be overridden with a
> > blank line macro (".blm"), and all macro packages for text
> > formatting (mm, ms, me, man, etc.) have macros for paragraph
> > separation, and the inter-paragraph spacing is usually different
> > from ".sp 1" for typesetter output (this can be seen in PostScript
> > and PDF output).  Explicit spacing is also unnecessary immediately
> > adjacent to section headings.
> > 
> > See section 5.3 of CSTR #54, "Troff User's Manual", Ossanna &
> > Kernighan <https://www.troff.org/54.pdf>.
> 
> Hmmm. I see the improvement in the formatted output, but the absence
> of blank lines in the man page "source" make it pretty hard to read
> now. I would appreciate some form of spacing at least before each
> section to make it easier to navigate whenever a developer needs to
> edit the document. Does roff provide no way to achieve this?

I believe this item was resolved with a decision to use the empty
request.

https://www.mail-archive.com/quilt-dev@nongnu.org/msg02456.html

Regards,
Branden

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