Hi Rob, and welcome to the groff community! On 1/11/22, Rob Kolstad <[email protected]> wrote: > How do I send in suggestions (changes)? I can't imagine this > document has a high rate of change, given its publication date.
You'll be either pleased or horrified to learn that since the 2018 release of groff 1.22.4, there have been over 400 commits (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/log/doc/groff.texi) to the groff manual, everything from documenting new features to rewriting problematic passages such as the one you found to clarifying groff behavior. In particular, a monster commit from about 14 months ago (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=2a63d94e) entirely rewrote the paragraph you quoted to give a better historical overview of sentence-spacing practice and to not cite phantom publications. Branden Robinson has already done a huge amount of overhaul of this manual, but any extra help in correcting errors or polishing the wording would be appreciated. The best way to get your changes considered is to open new bug reports against the "Documentation" Item Group in the groff bug tracker (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff) and attach patches with the edits you'd like to see, making sure you are generating those patches based on the most recent version of the manual in git. Write back here if you need more instructions on how to do any of that.
