summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/roff.7
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
-rw-r--r--roff.76
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index e434eec8..7f224edb 100644
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -315,12 +315,18 @@ delimiters
The proper spacing is also intelligently preserved if a sentence ends at
the boundary of a macro line.
.Pp
+If an input line happens to end with a period, exclamation or question
+mark that isn't the end of a sentence, append a zero-width space
+.Pq Sq \e& .
+.Pp
Examples:
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
Do not end sentences mid-line like this. Instead,
end a sentence like this.
A macro would end like this:
\&.Xr mandoc 1 \&.
+An abbreviation at the end of an input line needs escaping, e.g.\e&
+like this.
.Ed
.Sh REQUEST SYNTAX
A request or macro line consists of: