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[bug #58933] [PATCH] doc/groff.texi, man/groff.7.man: clarify description of \&

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                 Summary: [PATCH] doc/groff.texi, man/groff.7.man: clarify
description of \&
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: barx
            Submitted on: Mon 10 Aug 2020 04:17:20 PM 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:

On a suggestion from Peter Schaffter
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-07/msg00100.html) that \& is
best described as "a zero-width, non-printing character" -- itself in reply to
my observation that groff's current term, "zero-width space," is a bit
misleading, especially as that's the name of a Unicode character (U+200B)
equivalent to groff's \: rather than its \& -- I created this patch
(originally posted at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-08/msg00014.html) to update
groff's documentation accordingly.

Both target files have changed since I created the patch, but it still (as of
commit 4ce01df7) applies cleanly.



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Date: Mon 10 Aug 2020 04:17:20 PM CDT  Name: zwnpc.patch  Size: 3KiB   By:
barx
update description of \&amp; in doc/groff.texi and man/groff.7.man
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=49650>

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