=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v retrieving revision 1.113 retrieving revision 1.115 diff -u -p -r1.113 -r1.115 --- mandoc/roff.7 2019/07/01 23:30:16 1.113 +++ mandoc/roff.7 2020/10/28 21:07:47 1.115 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.113 2019/07/01 23:30:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.115 2020/10/28 21:07:47 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2010-2019 Ingo Schwarze @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 1 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 28 2020 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -315,12 +315,18 @@ delimiters The proper spacing is also intelligently preserved if a sentence ends at the boundary of a macro line. .Pp +If an input line happens to end with a period, exclamation or question +mark that isn't the end of a sentence, append a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& . +.Pp Examples: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact Do not end sentences mid-line like this. Instead, end a sentence like this. A macro would end like this: \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&. +An abbreviation at the end of an input line needs escaping, e.g.\e& +like this. .Ed .Sh REQUEST SYNTAX A request or macro line consists of: @@ -2325,7 +2331,7 @@ for .At v2 , then ported nroff to C as troff, which Brian W. Kernighan released with .At v7 . -In 1989, James Clarke re-implemented troff in C++, naming it groff. +In 1989, James Clark re-implemented troff in C++, naming it groff. .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit This