On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:11:19 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:42 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > The Latin "exempli gratia" is abbreviated "e.g.". > > > > Also, use a zero-width-space escape to defeat roff's end-of-sentence > > detection. See section 4.1 of CSTR #54, "Troff User's Manual", Ossanna > > & Kernighan <https://www.troff.org/54.pdf>. > > > > Index: quilt/doc/quilt.1.in > > =================================================================== > > --- quilt.orig/doc/quilt.1.in > > +++ quilt/doc/quilt.1.in > > @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ If none of these variables is set, \\[lq > > An empty value indicates that no pager should be used. > > .IP QUILT_COLORS 4 > > By default, quilt uses its predefined color set in order to be more > > -comprehensible when distiguishing various types of patches, eg. > > +comprehensible when distiguishing various types of patches, e.g.\\& > > applied/unapplied, failed, etc. > > .IP > > To override one or more color settings, set the QUILT_COLORS variable in > > Good catch, thanks. > > Out of curiosity, would moving the "e.g." at the beginning of the > following line be a suitable alternative to adding that > zero-width-space escape? If so, this may preferable, being more > readable.
Answering to myself... From the latest version of groff's documentation: * Use '\&' after '!', '?', and '.' if they are followed by space, tab, or newline characters and don't end a sentence. So no, moving the "e.g." at the beginning of the following line makes no difference. However, from man-pages(7): Always include periods in such abbreviations, as shown here. In addition, "e.g." and "i.e." should always be followed by a comma. So the proper fix is to add a comma, not a zero-width-space escape. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev