Hi Branden,
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:34 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote:
> Blank lines are bad roff style. Per CSTR #54, blank lines are the
> equivalent of ".sp 1", but in GNU roff this can be overridden with a
> blank line macro (".blm"), and all macro packages for text formatting
> (mm, ms, me, man, etc.) have macros for paragraph separation, and the
> inter-paragraph spacing is usually different from ".sp 1" for typesetter
> output (this can be seen in PostScript and PDF output). Explicit
> spacing is also unnecessary immediately adjacent to section headings.
>
> See section 5.3 of CSTR #54, "Troff User's Manual", Ossanna & Kernighan
> <https://www.troff.org/54.pdf>.
Hmmm. I see the improvement in the formatted output, but the absence of
blank lines in the man page "source" make it pretty hard to read now. I
would appreciate some form of spacing at least before each section to
make it easier to navigate whenever a developer needs to edit the
document. Does roff provide no way to achieve this?
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
_______________________________________________
Quilt-dev mailing list
Quilt-dev@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
