[bug #55954] [PATCH] make doc/groff.texi and man/groff.7.man state that certain spaces are nonbreaking

[Dave]

URL:
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                 Summary: [PATCH] make doc/groff.texi and man/groff.7.man
state that certain spaces are nonbreaking
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: barx
            Submitted on: Tue 19 Mar 2019 11:37:37 AM CDT
                Category: Core
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

(originally posted to the groff email list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2019-02/msg00106.html)

The fixed-width space characters \0, \|, and \^ are all nonbreaking, but the
documentation does not say so.

A possible patch to remedy this is attached.  Perhaps only the groff.texi part
of the patch should be applied; groff.7.man isn't meant to be a comprehensive
reference, and this level of detail may add unnecessary clutter.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Tue 19 Mar 2019 11:37:37 AM CDT  Name: breakable_space.patch  Size: 2KiB
  By: barx

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=46579>

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