On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Dave Kemper wrote: > I think you're confusing starting every sentence on its own line with > using newlines nowhere *except* between sentences.
You are right. My distaste for hitting return instead of space after a period clouded my reading of the advice. :) > > Furthermore, since groff treats end of sentence characters followed > > by one space, two spaces, or newlines identically when sentence > > spacing is disabled (as it is by default), > > That *should* be true, but isn't > (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58500). Some non-English-language tmac > files disable wider sentence spacing, and perhaps some macro packages, > but by default groff itself does not. Perhaps I should have been more verbose and written: According to the info(1) manual, initially both the WORD_SPACE_SIZE and SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE are 12; since this prevents SS from being larger than WS, it effectively disables sentence spacing. It just seemed easier to write "disabled by default." -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
