In message: <E498BA74-1D8A-11D8-BE48-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>
            Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
: On Nov 22, 2003, at 11:27 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
: 
: > You really need to put this in our style guide (and get
: > core/technical-exec buyoff) if you want developers to
: > enforce it.
: 
: IIRC, "new sentence, new line" has always been a requirement for *roff 
: to process text correctly.

That's what I was told when I asked why FreeBSD enforced such a rule.
Maybe things have changed in roff-land since then...

Warner