[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech swscaler_methods.txt, 1.1, 1.2

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:23:51AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 02:41, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:40:05PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > (And, on loosely the same subject, there are several lines on which
> > > there are trailing spaces which serve no obvious function; I'd be
> > > inclined to remove them as well, unless someone objects.)
> >
> > I dislike trailing whitespace as well.  I remove it when I change the
> > line anyway.  It is a purely cosmetic change, so I mostly just don't
> > bother.  IIRC I have removed trailing whitespace from some XML docs in
> > separate commits.  If you feel strongly about this, go ahead, I won't
> > mind.
> 
> The Wanderer said "which serve no obvious function". My question is, does 
> trailing whitespace ever serve a function? I seem to remember there is one 
> use for it in troff?

It's a hack we use to force a linebreak by padding options names with
spaces preceded by a backslash '\ '.

Diego