[bug #58500] default value for second parameter to .ss should follow modern typographic convention

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #58500 (project groff):


[comment #9 comment #9:]
> [comment #8 comment #8:]
> > what about the groff language default of 1 for the .hy request?
> 
> Beyond what's covered in bug #57556?  Not sure what you're asking.

Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

We should probably group and track these sorts of changes so they can be
queued for a release where we know we want to make changes to language
defaults.  (Just on general release engineering principles; that release might
be the next one, for all I know, and I realize I may be perceived as cheeky
for saying this is as "Mr. \sN", something for which I fear Ralph Corderoy
will never forgive me.)

But I also have in mind some comments I've seen around the source code, like
the default pen position after drawing polygons, which Werner really wanted to
change several years ago but then it kinda got fossilzed where it was.

Another thing to note is that there is stuff in the codebase that has been
#ifdef out...FOR THIRTY YEARS.  Grep around for the "COLUMN" preprocessor
symbol, for example.

Anyway, to get back to the issue at hand...  I think you are significantly
overstating the longevity of this "new norm".  It's been much less than 70
years since CMoS reversed itself on this point.  I'll concede the direction of
the trend and the timeframe of when it started, but I reject any implication
that single-spacing was the majority view in 1950.

"idiösyncratic"

<stifles laugh, chews lip>

As a supporter of the syllabifying dieresis, I swear to you that some day I
shall have my vengeance.

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