I happened to notice this chunk in the diff from 1.14.18 to 1.14.19:

-Specifies that the package is interested in the named trigger.
-All triggers in which a package is interested must be listed using
-this directive in the triggers control file.
+Specifies that the package is interested in the named trigger. All
+triggers in which a package is interested must be listed using this
+directive in the triggers control file.

I thought this might be a good time to point out that, in fact,
end-of-sentence punctuation in manual pages should always fall at the
end of a line. groff produces slightly better output (particularly when
producing PostScript) if you do this.

Here's the Sentences node in 'info groff', which goes into more detail:


Although it is often debated, some typesetting rules say there
should be different amounts of space after various punctuation marks.
For example, the `Chicago typsetting manual' says that a period at the
end of a sentence should have twice as much space following it as would
a comma or a period as part of an abbreviation.

`gtroff' does this by flagging certain characters (normally `!',
`?', and `.') as "end-of-sentence" characters. When `gtroff'
encounters one of these characters at the end of a line, it appends a
normal space followed by a "sentence space" in the formatted output.
(This justifies one of the conventions mentioned in *Note Input
Conventions::.)

In addition, the following characters and symbols are treated
transparently while handling end-of-sentence characters: `"', `', `)',
`]', `*', `[dg]', and `[rq]'.

See the `cflags' request in *Note Using Symbols::, for more details.

To prevent the insertion of extra space after an end-of-sentence
character (at the end of a line), append `&'.


Thanks,

--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]


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