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commit 2c6159ba8172d1479563ce30ab590f53f9ec9043
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Jun 30 17:55:39 2019 +1000
groff_man.7.man: Make English style tweak.
Recast slightly to relieve strain on subject/verb agreement.
(Consider: "Either dogs or a cat is needed to keep your home free of
vermin." The former conjuct pulls one way, the latter the other.)
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man b/tmac/groff_man.7.man
index a7cd39f..d1c836c 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man
@@ -1913,8 +1913,8 @@ and it is slightly more portable than the more exact
\(oq\e(rs\(cq
Switch to bold, italic, roman, or back to the previous font,
respectively.
.
-Either these or \(oq\ec\(cq is needed when three different fonts are
-required in a single whitespace-delimited word.
+Either \(oq\ef\(cq or \(oq\ec\(cq is needed when three different fonts
+are required in a single whitespace-delimited word.
.
.
.RS
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