Re: [Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users

[Axel Kielhorn]

Am 29.08.2007 um 01:21 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:

> > Start a new sentence at a new line (is this a "law" or just a good
> > idea?)
>
> It's a good idea.

I thought so. It is diff- and therefore cvs-friendly.

> Additionally, there's a difference between
>
>     foo. bar
>
> and
>
>     foo.  bar
>
> The latter is the usual style with, say, emacs, so that it can easily
> find the end of a sentence (using a regular expression for searching)
> without stopping at abbreviations.  With groff, you should do this too
> (this is, using two spaces after a full stop indicating a sentence
> ending) -- the second space is handled specially; cf. the
> documentation of the `.ss' request.

Thus

foo.
bar

is equivalent to

foo.  bar

The reason I don't see a difference after changing from "foo. bar" to 
"foo.\nbar" is the
.ss 12 0
request in de.tmac. (Which is in fr.tmac as well.)

I think I should point this out.

Axel