[bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete

From	"G. Branden Robinson" <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.groff.bug
Subject	[bug #54101] documentation for .ss either incorrect or incomplete
Date	2020-05-08 05:27 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.2404.1588930064.3066.bug-groff@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	(8 earlier) <20200507-022001.sv108747.42904@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-024038.sv108747.99596@savannah.gnu.org> <20200507-221442.sv108747.71097@savannah.gnu.org> <20200508-042137.sv93119.89972@savannah.gnu.org> <20200508-092742.sv108747.69447@savannah.gnu.org>

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Follow-up Comment #11, bug #54101 (project groff):


[comment #10 comment #10:]

> The core problem is that when adjusting, groff stretches word spaces and not
sentence spaces, yet the documentation states (or at least strongly implies)
groff may stretch both.
> 
> The original problematic sentence (as documented in comment #0) was "In fill
mode, the values specify the minimum distance."  The values in question are
the two parameters to .ss, only one of which (in current groff) is actually a
minimum distance; the other is a fixed distance.  The cited commit recasts
this sentence as "When adjusting, the values specify minimum distances." 
While overall a better wording, it retains the inaccuracy of the original.

Thanks.  I'll zero in on this point and take another look.  I got pretty
distracted digging into the internals of env.cpp and node.cpp.

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