Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: "G. Branden Robinson" Newsgroups: gnu.groff.bug Subject: [bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 18:14:42 -0400 (EDT) Lines: 44 Approved: bug-groff@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20180612-014621.sv93119.14895@savannah.gnu.org> <20180613-095243.sv93119.92228@savannah.gnu.org> <20180616-170511.sv108747.63960@savannah.gnu.org> <20180616-133428.sv93119.4912@savannah.gnu.org> <20180616-235027.sv108747.41913@savannah.gnu.org> <20180618-061236.sv93119.46396@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-020849.sv108747.13198@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-020906.sv108747.30605@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-022001.sv108747.42904@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-024038.sv108747.99596@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-221442.sv108747.71097@savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1588889684 26877 209.51.188.17 (7 May 2020 22:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: "G. Branden Robinson" , Dave , bug-groff@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-groff@gnu.org X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1001:sendmail.php X-Savane-Server: savannah.gnu.org:443 [209.51.188.72] X-Savane-Project: groff X-Savane-Tracker: bugs X-Savane-Item-ID: 54101 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 X-Apparently-From: 1.129.111.28 (Savane authenticated user gbranden) In-Reply-To: <20200507-024038.sv108747.99596@savannah.gnu.org> X-BeenThere: bug-groff@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for the GNU version of nroff, troff et al" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20200507-221442.sv108747.71097@savannah.gnu.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: <20180612-014621.sv93119.14895@savannah.gnu.org> <20180613-095243.sv93119.92228@savannah.gnu.org> <20180616-170511.sv108747.63960@savannah.gnu.org> <20180616-133428.sv93119.4912@savannah.gnu.org> <20180616-235027.sv108747.41913@savannah.gnu.org> <20180618-061236.sv93119.46396@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-020849.sv108747.13198@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-020906.sv108747.30605@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-022001.sv108747.42904@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-024038.sv108747.99596@savannah.gnu.org> Xref: csiph.com gnu.groff.bug:1837 Update of bug #54101 (project groff): Status: In Progress => Fixed Open/Closed: Open => Closed Planned Release: None => 1.22.5 _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #9: Fixed, as in documentation rewritten, in 866bc203326528237f08f7debe9061ba8f430e1e. I did look into what it would take to get adjustment to be weighted more strongly for the additional inter-sentence space than for ordinary inter-word space, and it is not trivially easy, at least not with my current level of understanding of src/roff/troff. By the time extra space needs to be distributed, _all_ interword spacing on the line has been converted to generic "space nodes" which don't know whether they're between words or between sentences. A vague picture in my mind began to form of how I might overcome that (add a flag to the space_node class, or subclass it), but at the same time I realized I don't actually know if it is typographically _sound_ to distribute extra space the way I was planning. I guess I should bring this to the discussion list. Let me know if the new documentation is (or is not) an improvement. Thanks for the report! _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/