Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64356 (project groff): Documentation update.
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi index 37a25e8b4..aad4bce4d 100644 --- a/doc/groff.texi +++ b/doc/groff.texi @@ -17797,10 +17797,10 @@ @node Simple Commands @item w Indicate an inter-word space. No action is performed; the command is -present to make the output more easily parsed. Only adjustable, -breakable inter-word spaces are thus described; those resulting from -@code{\~} or horizontal motion escape sequences are not. GNU -@code{troff} issues this command but @code{groff}'s output driver +present to make the output more easily parsed. Only inter-word spaces +on an output line (be they breakable or not) are thus described; those +resulting from @code{\~} or horizontal motion escape sequences are not. +GNU @code{troff} issues this command but @code{groff}'s output driver library ignores it. See @code{h} and @code{H} above. @end table diff --git a/man/groff_out.5.man b/man/groff_out.5.man index 9c1534e2e..de6d872ac 100644 --- a/man/groff_out.5.man +++ b/man/groff_out.5.man @@ -822,8 +822,9 @@ .SS "Simple commands" No action is performed; the command is present to make the output more easily parsed. . -Only adjustable, -breakable inter-word spaces are thus described; +Only inter-word spaces on an output line +(be they breakable or not) +are thus described; those resulting from .B \[rs]\[ti] or horizontal motion escape sequences are not. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64356> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/