Re: Small rendering difference between nroff and mandoc

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Salut Nicolas,

Nicolas Joly wrote on Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:00:36PM +0200:

> I recently started checking for differences between nroff and mandoc
> output for the NetBSD manpages. And noticed a small spacing difference
> between the tools. When a sentence ends with a macro followed by a
> punctuation mark mandoc does only output a single space character but
> nroff adds two.

As far as i could reproduce, two particular macros were affected,
namely .In and .Ap.  I just fixed those two in both OpenBSD and bsd.lv.

Should you find more, it would be kind if you could speak up again!

Thanks again for the report,
  Ingo

> By example with the select(2) man page :
> 
> njoly@lanfeust [~]> cat /usr/share/man/man2/select.2
> [...]
> a larger definition of
> .Dv FD_SETSIZE
> before the inclusion of
> .In sys/types.h .
> The kernel will cope,and the userland libraries provided with the
> system are also ready for large numbers of file descriptors.
> [...]
> 
> njoly@lanfeust [~]> nroff -mandoc /usr/share/man/man2/select.2
> [...]
>      providing a larger definition of FD_SETSIZE before the inclusion of
>      <sys/types.h>.  The kernel will cope,and the userland libraries provided
>      with the system are also ready for large numbers of file descriptors.
> 
> njoly@lanfeust [~]> mandoc /usr/share/man/man2/select.2
> [...]
>      by providing a larger definition of FD_SETSIZE before the inclusion of
>      <sys/types.h>. The kernel will cope,and the userland libraries provided
>      with the system are also ready for large numbers of file descriptors.
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