Re: groff/-mandoc replacement (OT)

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, der Mouse wrote:

> In all the cases I can think of offhand, "what I want" is a blank line,
> usually to compensate for the way certain tables like to leave no space
> between the last line of the last entry and following text.
>
> Perhaps mdoc can do this.  But if so, I haven't figured out how,
> despite spending substantial time poring over mdoc(7) and
> mdoc.samples(7).  (I don't know enough roff to UTSL.  Perhaps I should
> change that....)

here you go:

 .Pp  The `.Pp' paragraph command may be used to specify a line space
      where necessary.  The macro is not necessary after a `.Sh' or `.Ss'

regards,
iain