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Re: [groff] 05/05: groff_man.5.man: Make editorial fixes.


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [groff] 05/05: groff_man.5.man: Make editorial fixes.
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 18:27:05 +0100

Hi Ingo,

> Writing something like
>
>   Bogus Inc.\& sells snake oil at very competitive prices.
>
> would be cargo cult programming and should not be recommended.

It's useful if one formats the source with something that doesn't
understand that

    Bogus Inc. sells snake oil

shouldn't be broken after the `Inc.' without appending a `\&' to it.
Otherwise, a non-end-of-sentence full stop arrives at the end of the
source line.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.



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