Follow-up Comment #6, bug #62816 (project groff): [comment #5 comment #5:] > It's probably worth cataloguing here all the use cases for \& that have been cited so far in discussion. This is likely also an incomplete list. > > * placing a literal control character at the beginning of an input line > * preventing adjacent characters from being kerned or made a ligature > * suppressing end-of-sentence detection > * making marginalia (numbers or marks) perceive a line as nonblank
Thanks for enumerating these, Dave. Except for the third, I _think_ all also apply to the (groff) `\)` escape sequence. > * in tbl, aligning numeric columns > * in tbl, marking empty entries > > (The last two items sound to me like distinct uses, but they may be variants of the same thing; I don't know tbl at all. I got these respectively from http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-06/msg00053.html and http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-06/msg00017.html.) They are not the same thing; I implemented the second of these post-groff 1.22.4. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62816> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
