Ralph Corderoy wrote on Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:07:38PM +0000: > Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> 3. In tmac/groff_trace.7.man, the blank lines you changed to .P >> are inside .EX blocks. As far as i know, both blank lines >> and .P work portably in .nf mode and hence in .EX blocks and >> .Bd -unfilled and .Bd -literal. > They give very different results though. A blank line's vertical space > will be that of the other non-blank lines whereas a .P's can be > different, e.g. -Tpdf. And .P will reset the left margin and indent. > > It's important to remember that the world is not a TTY. ;-) Uh oh, i sometimes forget that... 8-/ You seem to have a point. I'd say that means when a blank line occurs inside literal code (or like in this case, inside literal input and output of a program) wrapped in .EX/.EE, then usually blank lines are wanted rather than .P, and it seems to me this applies to the cases in question in tmac/groff_trace.7.man. Yours, Ingo
