Put the eos-checker into libmandoc.h.

Added bits in mdoc.7 and man.7 about EOS spacing.

6 files changed, 38 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/libmandoc.h b/libmandoc.h
index dc91a200..638c8ebb 100644
--- a/libmandoc.h
+++ b/libmandoc.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ time_t		 mandoc_a2time(int, const char *);
 #define		 MTIME_REDUCED		(1 << 1)
 #define		 MTIME_MDOCDATE		(1 << 2)
 #define		 MTIME_ISO_8601		(1 << 3)
+int		 mandoc_eos(const char *, size_t);
 
 __END_DECLS
 
diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index a6995170..be85d90a 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -212,6 +212,12 @@ this differs from
 .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 which, if a unit is not provided, will instead interpret the string as
 literal text.
+.Ss Sentence Spacing
+When composing a manual, make sure that your sentences end at the end of
+a line.
+By doing so, front-ends will be able to apply the proper amount of
+spacing after the end of sentence (unescaped) period, exclamation, or question
+mark.
 .Sh MANUAL STRUCTURE
 Each
 .Nm
diff --git a/man.c b/man.c
index ce67992e..a484c175 100644
--- a/man.c
+++ b/man.c
@@ -428,20 +428,8 @@ man_ptext(struct man *m, int line, char *buf)
 
 	assert(i);
 
-	switch (buf[i - 1]) {
-	case ('.'):
-		if (i > 1 && '\\' == buf[i - 2])
-			break;
-		/* FALLTHROUGH */
-	case ('!'):
-		/* FALLTHROUGH */
-	case ('?'):
+	if (mandoc_eos(buf, (size_t)i))
 		m->last->flags |= MAN_EOS;
-		break;
-	default:
-		break;
-
-	}
 
 descope:
 	/*
diff --git a/mandoc.c b/mandoc.c
index dface045..6677295e 100644
--- a/mandoc.c
+++ b/mandoc.c
@@ -300,3 +300,26 @@ mandoc_a2time(int flags, const char *p)
 	return(0);
 }
 
+
+int
+mandoc_eos(const char *p, size_t sz)
+{
+
+	assert(sz);
+
+	switch (p[(int)sz - 1]) {
+	case ('.'):
+		/* Escaped periods. */
+		if (sz > 1 && '\\' == p[(int)sz - 2])
+			return(0);
+		/* FALLTHROUGH */
+	case ('!'):
+		/* FALLTHROUGH */
+	case ('?'):
+		break;
+	default:
+		return(0);
+	}
+
+	return(1);
+}
diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 500e3c91..59da4af0 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@ or
 is necessarily non-portable across output media.
 See
 .Sx COMPATIBILITY .
+.Ss Sentence Spacing
+When composing a manual, make sure that your sentences end at the end of
+a line.
+By doing so, front-ends will be able to apply the proper amount of
+spacing after the end of sentence (unescaped) period, exclamation mark,
+or question mark.
 .Sh MANUAL STRUCTURE
 A well-formed
 .Nm
diff --git a/mdoc.c b/mdoc.c
index efa18631..88e673e8 100644
--- a/mdoc.c
+++ b/mdoc.c
@@ -700,20 +700,8 @@ mdoc_ptext(struct mdoc *m, int line, char *buf)
 
 	assert(i);
 
-	switch (buf[i - 1]) {
-	case ('.'):
-		if (i > 1 && '\\' == buf[i - 2])
-			break;
-		/* FALLTHROUGH */
-	case ('!'):
-		/* FALLTHROUGH */
-	case ('?'):
+	if (mandoc_eos(buf, (size_t)i))
 		m->last->flags |= MDOC_EOS;
-		break;
-	default:
-		break;
-
-	}
 
 	return(1);
 }