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manpage.rb: space ellipses more pleasantly #4568

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g-branden-robinson opened this issue Mar 25, 2024 · 0 comments

g-branden-robinson commented Mar 25, 2024 •

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asciidoctor/lib/asciidoctor/converter/manpage.rb

Line 707 in fd0e92a

.gsub(EllipsisCharRefRx, '...') # horizontal ellipsis

groff_man_style(7):

   Portability
...
     \|        Thin space (one‐sixth em on typesetters, zero‐width on
               terminals); a non‐breaking space.  Used primarily in
               ellipses (“.\|.\|.”) to space the dots more pleasantly on
               typesetters like dvi, pdf, and ps.

The \| escape sequence is universally portable to roff implementations; it appeared in Joe Ossanna's CSTR #54 in 1976.

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