gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit e84d5f49a5de5a9535d5ad44ecaebb71318084bb
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 27 17:52:57 2023 -0500
groff_char(7): Fix content and style nits.
* Be more precise.
* Use hair space escape sequences for better spacing between ring accent
and quotation marks.
---
man/groff_char.7.man | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index c928fb027..d8ae7f848 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ formatted.
.
This page was rendered for device
.B \*[.T]
-using font
+primarily using font
.BR \n[.fn] .
.
.
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ like
.BR ds ,
also treat
.B \[dq]
-non-literally.)
+non-literally at the beginning of an argument.)
.
Furthermore,
not all of the special character escape sequences are portable to AT&T
@@ -431,7 +431,8 @@ character in input outside an escape sequence
to mean a hyphen,
as in the phrase \[lq]long-term\[rq].
.
-For a minus sign in running text or a Unix command-line option dash,
+For a minus sign in running text or a Unix file name or command-line
+option dash,
use
.B \[rs]\-
(or
@@ -784,7 +785,7 @@ with hexadecimal letters accepted in uppercase form only.
Thus,
.B \[rs][u02DA]
accesses the (spacing) ring accent,
-producing \[lq]\[u02DA]\[rq].
+producing \[lq]\^\[u02DA]\^\[rq].
.
.
.\" Use "GNU troff" in this paragraph because the contrast with AT&T
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