[bug #68420] [troff] assertion failures on impossible {normal, no-break} control character assignments

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #68420 (group groff):

Oh, also:

> The intent is to put a . in the output and this works in groff 1.23.0.

If **that's** all you want, the idiomatic method is this.


Hello.
\&.5 past light speed?
That's incredible!
\&'tis.


Our manual says:

> If you require a formatted period or apostrophe (closing single quotation
> mark) where the formatter expects a control character, prefix the dot or
> neutral apostrophe with the dummy character escape sequence, ‘\&’.

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html.node/Requests-and-Macros.html


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