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commit 3567845338c7208768dfb88e3688d030bd8288fe
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Nov 29 04:50:25 2022 -0600
roff(7): Fix content nits.
* Fix excessively glib characterization of Turing-completeness. Without
unbounded recursion, you can provably halt.[citation needed]
* Clarify what docs groff(1) references.
---
man/roff.7.man | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index d37f1ea14..0e1b18fb7 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -1876,17 +1876,17 @@ and control of execution flow.
The theoretically-minded will observe that a
.I roff
is not a mere markup language,
-but Turing-complete,
-and would be even stripped of its macro-definition facility.
+but Turing-complete.
.
It has storage
(registers);
it can perform tests
(as in conditional expressions like
.RB \[lq] "(\[rs]n[i] >= 1)" \[rq]);
-and it can jump or branch using the
+it can jump or branch using the
.B .if
-request.
+request;
+and macro definition permits unbounded recursion.
.
.
.P
@@ -2569,8 +2569,11 @@ For GNU
.IR roff ,
the
.MR groff @MAN1EXT@
-man page offers a survey of all the documentation distributed with the
-system.
+man page enumerates all man pages distributed with the system,
+and individual pages frequently refer to external resources as well as
+manuals distributed with
+.I groff
+on a variety of topics.
.
.
.P
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