URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51046>
Summary: groff.texi: remove repeated words
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: bjarniig
Submitted on: Wed 17 May 2017 12:59:43 AM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
_______________________________________________________
Details:
>From 2274015081d2ff1cf2bfc134ca56495b01a9b74b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 00:27:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] groff.texi: remove repeated words and untangle their
paragraphs
Untanglement: see man-pages(7), "Conventions for source file layout".
Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>
---
doc/groff.texi | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 01c34103..2afd1f05 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -7754,11 +7754,11 @@ mode, and 0 in normal mode.
@subsection Leaders
@cindex leaders
-Sometimes it may may be desirable to use the @code{tc} request to fill a
+Sometimes it may be desirable to use the @code{tc} request to fill a
particular tab stop with a given glyph (for example dots in a table of
-contents), but also normal tab stops on the rest of the line. For this
-@code{gtroff} provides an alternate tab mechanism, called @dfn{leaders},
-which does just that.
+contents), but also normal tab stops on the rest of the line.
+For this @code{gtroff} provides an alternate tab mechanism, called
+@dfn{leaders}, which does just that.
@cindex leader character
A leader character (character code@tie{}1) behaves similarly to a tab
@@ -10634,7 +10634,7 @@ numeric expression with a default scale indicator of
@samp{z}.
@itemx \s'-@var{n}'
@itemx \s+'@var{n}'
@itemx \s-'@var{n}'
-Increase or or decrease the point size by @var{n}@tie{}scaled points;
+Increase or decrease the point size by @var{n}@tie{}scaled points;
@var{n}@tie{}is a numeric expression (which may start with a minus sign)
with a default scale indicator of @samp{z}.
@end table
@@ -11583,10 +11583,11 @@ macro one level higher. This is used to define a
wrapper macro for
@cindex \@key{RET}, when reading text for a macro
When @code{gtroff} reads in the text for a macro, string, or diversion,
it copies the text (including request lines, but excluding escapes) into
-an internal buffer. Escapes are converted into an internal form, except
-for @code{\n}, @code{\$}, @code{\*}, @code{\\} and @code{\@key{RET}},
-which are evaluated and inserted into the text where the escape was
-located. This is known as @dfn{copy-in} mode or @dfn{copy} mode.
+an internal buffer.
+Escapes are converted into an internal form, except for @code{\n},
+@code{\$}, @code{\*}, @code{\\} and @code{\@key{RET}}, which are evaluated
+and inserted into the text where the escape was located.
+This is known as @dfn{copy-in} mode or @dfn{copy} mode.
What this means is that you can specify when these escapes are to be
evaluated (either at copy-in time or at the time of use) by insulating
@@ -13564,9 +13565,10 @@ for @code{pso} also.
@Defreq {mso, file}
Identical to the @code{so} request except that @code{gtroff} searches
for the specified @var{file} in the same directories as macro files for
-the the @option{-m} command line option. If the file name to be
-included has the form @file{@var{name}.tmac} and it isn't found,
-@code{mso} tries to include @file{tmac.@var{name}} and vice versa.
+the @option{-m} command line option.
+If the file name to be included has the form @file{@var{name}.tmac} and it
+isn't found, @code{mso} tries to include @file{tmac.@var{name}} and vice
+versa.
If the file does not exist, a warning of type @samp{file} is emitted.
@xref{Debugging}, for information about warnings.
@endDefreq
--
2.11.0
_______________________________________________________
Reply to this item at:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51046>
_______________________________________________
Message sent via/by Savannah
http://savannah.gnu.org/
_______________________________________________
bug-groff mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
