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commit a9c00a58e08fd228fc238a8a93d6c373cb905b0b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 23 12:39:59 2022 -0500
doc/groff.texi: Fix correctness and style nits.
* Not all escape sequences interpreted in copy mode perform
interpolations. \" and \# are exceptions, for instance.
* It is macro _calls_ that can recurse, not really macros themselves.
---
doc/groff.texi | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index e71b40467..ebf30d6a4 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5309,9 +5309,9 @@ perhaps less obviously, we could also have defined them
@emph{after}
the body of a macro definition is not (completely) interpreted, but
stored instead (@pxref{Copy Mode}). While a macro is being defined (or
appended to), requests are not interpreted and macros not interpolated,
-whereas some commonly used escape sequences @emph{are} interpolated.
-@code{roff} systems also support recursive macros---as long as you have
-a way to break the recursion (@pxref{Conditionals and Loops}).
+whereas some commonly used escape sequences @emph{are} interpreted.
+@code{roff} systems also support recursive macro calls, as long as you
+have a way to break the recursion (@pxref{Conditionals and Loops}).
Maintainable @code{roff} documents tend to arrange macro definitions to
minimize forward references.
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