From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: It -column \tab terminal punctuation.
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 01:23:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100510232356.GD12994@usta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE7EF4C.9030509@bsd.lv>
Hi Kristaps,
Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:34:36PM +0200:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-05/msg00018.html
Especially following Tadziu Hoffmann's explanation in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-05/msg00020.html , ...
> .It a ) ] ;<TAB>b ) ] ;<TAB>c ) ] ;
> a)] ; b)] ; c)];
> ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
... I tend to consider that as a bug in groff.
Considering the space character an argument delimiter but
not considering a tab character an argument delimiter, put mildly,
violates the principle of least surprise, in particular given that
the tab character separates more strongly in roff than the space
character in other respects.
> a)]; b)]; c)];
That seems reasonable indeed.
Yours,
Ingo
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