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Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set"
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Gunnar Ritter |
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Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set" |
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Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:21:05 +0100 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> What about \~ which I like very much, and which is a great
> typographical improvement?
I generally agree, \~ is indispensable. However in manual
pages, I use \<SP> instead. For nroff, the difference is
negligible anyway. Otherwise, I prefer to avoid a ~ in
the output with viewers that do not support it like e.g.
legacy Solaris troff. A manual page is a tool, not a work
of art.
Gunnar
- Re: [Groff] doclifter on groffer.man, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] doclifter on groffer.man, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/01/01
- Re: [Groff] doclifter on groffer.man, Larry Kollar, 2007/01/01
- Re: [Groff] doclifter on groffer.man, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/01/01
- [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set", Eric S. Raymond, 2007/01/01
- Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set", Gunnar Ritter, 2007/01/01
- Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set", Eric S. Raymond, 2007/01/01
- Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set", Werner LEMBERG, 2007/01/02
- Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set",
Gunnar Ritter <=
- Re: [Groff] Third-party viewers, KDE, and the "portable set", Eric S. Raymond, 2007/01/02
Re: [Groff] doclifter on groffer.man, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/01/01