Sm off and text lines

Sm off and text lines

[Evan Silberman]

mdoc(7) on the Sm macro reads (emphasis added):

> By default, spacing is on. When switched off, no white space is
> inserted between macro arguments and between the output generated from
> adjacent macros, but text lines still get normal spacing between words
> **and sentences.**

This implied to me that while spacing is off, consecutive text lines
would have spacing between them as normal. In fact they do not:

    text
    .Sm off
    text.
    text
    .Sm on
    text

renders as

    text text.text text

(The "." is in there since the allusion in the documentation to
sentences made me wonder if that made a difference; it doesn't.)

I don't think there's any regression tests for Sm that have multiple
text lines within the scope of Sm off.

So, would it be more correct for the Sm documentation to state that
spacing within a text line is still handled normally, and spaces between
consecutive text lines are suppressed?

Thanks,
Evan
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