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A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Input Conventions (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Input Conventions (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Input Conventions (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Text.html" rel="up" title="Text"> +<link href="Input-Encodings.html" rel="prev" title="Input Encodings"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +ul.mark-bullet {list-style-type: disc} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="subsection-level-extent" id="Input-Conventions"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Previous: <a href="Input-Encodings.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Input Encodings</a>, Up: <a href="Text.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h4 class="subsection" id="Input-Conventions-1">5.1.10 Input Conventions</h4> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-input-conventions"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-conventions-for-input"></a> + +<p>Since GNU <code class="code">troff</code> fills text automatically, it is common practice +in the <code class="code">roff</code> language to avoid visual composition of text in input +files: the esthetic appeal of the formatted output is what matters. +Therefore, <code class="code">roff</code> input should be arranged such that it is easy for +authors and maintainers to compose and develop the document, understand +the syntax of <code class="code">roff</code> requests, macro calls, and preprocessor +languages used, and predict the behavior of the formatter. Several +traditions have accrued in service of these goals. +</p> +<ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> +<li>Follow sentence endings in the input with newlines to ease their +recognition (see <a class="pxref" href="Sentences.html">Sentences</a>). It is frequently convenient to end +text lines after colons and semicolons as well, as these typically +precede independent clauses. Consider doing so after commas; they often +occur in lists that become easy to scan when itemized by line, or +constitute supplements to the sentence that are added, deleted, or +updated to clarify it. Parenthetical and quoted phrases are also good +candidates for placement on text lines by themselves. + +</li><li>Set your text editor’s line length to 72 characters or +fewer.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF32" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT32"><sup>32</sup></a> +This limit, combined with the previous item of advice, makes it less +common that an input line will wrap in your text editor, and thus will +help you perceive excessively long constructions in your text. Recall +that natural languages originate in speech, not writing, and that +punctuation is correlated with pauses for breathing and changes in +prosody. + +</li><li>Use <code class="code">\&</code> after ‘<samp class="samp">!</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">?</samp>’, and ‘<samp class="samp">.</samp>’ if they are +followed by space, tab, or newline characters and don’t end a sentence. + +</li><li>In filled text lines, use <code class="code">\&</code> before ‘<samp class="samp">.</samp>’ and ‘<samp class="samp">'</samp>’ if they +are preceded by space, so that reflowing the input doesn’t turn them +into control lines. + +</li><li>Do not use spaces to perform indentation or align columns of a table. +Leading spaces are reliable when text is not being filled. + +</li><li>Comment your document. It is never too soon to apply comments to +record information of use to future document maintainers (including your +future self). We thus introduce another escape sequence, <code class="code">\"</code>, +which causes GNU <code class="code">troff</code> to ignore the remainder of the input line. + +</li><li>Use the empty request—a control character followed immediately by a +newline—to visually manage separation of material in input files. +Many of the <code class="code">groff</code> project’s own documents use an empty request +between sentences, after macro definitions, and where a break is +expected, and two empty requests between paragraphs or other requests or +macro calls that will introduce vertical space into the document. + +<p>You can combine the empty request with the comment escape sequence to +include whole-line comments in your document, and even “comment out” +sections of it. +</p></li></ul> + +<p>We conclude this section with an example sufficiently long to illustrate +most of the above suggestions in practice. For the purpose of fitting +the example between the margins of this manual with the font used for +its typeset version, we have shortened the input line length to 56 +columns. As before, an arrow → indicates a tab character. +</p> +<table class="cartouche" border="1"><tr><td> +<div class="example"> +<pre class="example-preformatted">.\" nroff this_file.roff | less +.\" groff -T ps this_file.roff > this_file.ps +→The theory of relativity is intimately connected with +the theory of space and time. +. +I shall therefore begin with a brief investigation of +the origin of our ideas of space and time, +although in doing so I know that I introduce a +controversial subject. \" remainder of paragraph elided +. +. + +→The experiences of an individual appear to us arranged +in a series of events; +in this series the single events which we remember +appear to be ordered according to the criterion of +\[lq]earlier\[rq] and \[lq]later\[rq], \" punct swapped +which cannot be analysed further. +. +There exists, +therefore, +for the individual, +an I-time, +or subjective time. +. +This itself is not measurable. +. +I can, +indeed, +associate numbers with the events, +in such a way that the greater number is associated with +the later event than with an earlier one; +but the nature of this association may be quite +arbitrary. +. +This association I can define by means of a clock by +comparing the order of events furnished by the clock +with the order of a given series of events. +. +We understand by a clock something which provides a +series of events which can be counted, +and which has other properties of which we shall speak +later. +.\" Albert Einstein, _The Meaning of Relativity_, 1922 +</pre></div> +</td></tr></table> + +</div> +<hr> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Previous: <a href="Input-Encodings.html">Input Encodings</a>, Up: <a href="Text.html">Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |