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commit add0bf10868f0a19161235f60be9a82d7a1e3847
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 27 16:51:01 2023 -0600
[ms]: Fix Unix nomenclature.
Properly, one says "Unix Version 6" or "Sixth Edition Unix".
---
doc/groff.texi | 2 +-
doc/ms.ms | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 0a076030d..91980b4a0 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -3586,7 +3586,7 @@ The @file{ms} macros provide a variety of ways to style
text.
Attend closely to the ordering of arguments labeled @var{pre} and
@var{post}, which is not intuitive. Support for @var{pre}
arguments is a GNU extension.@footnote{This idiosyncrasy arose through
-feature accretion; for example, the @code{B} macro in Version@tie{}6
+feature accretion; for example, the @code{B} macro in Sixth Edition
Unix @file{ms} (1975) accepted only one argument, the text to be set in
boldface. By Version@tie{}7 (1979) it recognized a second argument; in
1990, @code{groff} @file{ms} added a ``pre'' argument, placing it third
diff --git a/doc/ms.ms b/doc/ms.ms
index 29289d4f4..b30150724 100644
--- a/doc/ms.ms
+++ b/doc/ms.ms
@@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@ This idiosyncrasy arose through feature accretion;
for example,
the
.CW B
-macro in Version\~6 Unix
+macro in Sixth Edition Unix
.I ms
(1975) accepted only one argument,
the text to be set in boldface.
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