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commit 53147e425c9f7265394cfdafb7f8f9495d69f356
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Mar 31 07:21:46 2025 -0500
doc/groff.texi.in: Un-@acronym some non-acronyms.
If you pronounce the letters one by one, it's not an acronym, but an
initialism (or, in some contexts, an acrostic).
Cf. "FBI" and "NASA", or "USSR" and "COVID".
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 17 ++++++++---------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index e82ccb662..996e6ba32 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -736,8 +736,7 @@ format or byte stream that a piece of (possibly emulated)
hardware
understands. @code{groff} features output drivers for PostScript
devices, terminal emulators (and other simple typewriter-like machines),
X11 (for previewing), @TeX{} DVI, HP LaserJet@tie{}4/PCL5 printers,
-Canon LBP (@acronym{CaPSL}-using printers), @acronym{HTML},
-@acronym{XHTML}, and @acronym{PDF}.
+Canon LBP (@acronym{CaPSL}-using printers), HTML, XHTML, and PDF.
@c =====================================================================
@@ -1239,7 +1238,7 @@ following output devices are available.
For PostScript printers and previewers.
@item pdf
-For @acronym{PDF} viewers or printers.
+For PDF viewers or printers.
@item dvi
For @TeX{} DVI format.
@@ -1295,7 +1294,7 @@ printers).
@cindex @code{grohtml}, the program
@item html
@itemx xhtml
-To produce @acronym{HTML} and @acronym{XHTML} output, respectively.
+To produce HTML and XHTML output, respectively.
This driver consists of two parts, a preprocessor
(@command{pre-grohtml}) and a postprocessor (@command{post-grohtml}).
@end table
@@ -2541,8 +2540,8 @@ A Swedish localization of @file{mm} is also available; see
@section @file{mom}
@cindex @file{mom} macro package
-The @file{mom} package's primary documentation is in @acronym{HTML}.
-Model documents illustrating many features are offered in @acronym{PDF}.
+The @file{mom} package's primary documentation is in HTML@.
+Model documents illustrating many features are offered in PDF@.
See the @cite{groff@r{(1)}} man page,
section ``Installation Directories'',
for their location.
@@ -2559,7 +2558,7 @@ category.
@item
@file{mom-pdf.pdf}
-@acronym{PDF} features and usage.
+PDF features and usage.
@end itemize
The mom macros are in active development between @code{groff} releases.
@@ -2568,7 +2567,7 @@ available at
@uref{http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html}.
The @cite{groff_mom@r{(7)}} man page (type @samp{man groff_mom} at
the command line) contains a partial list of available macros, however
-their usage is best understood by consulting the @acronym{HTML}
+their usage is best understood by consulting the HTML
documentation.
@@ -20302,7 +20301,7 @@ The @var{entity-name} field defines an identifier for
the glyph that the
postprocessor uses to print the GNU @code{troff} glyph @var{name}. This
field is optional; it was introduced so that the @code{grohtml} output
driver could encode its character set. For example, the glyph
-@samp{\[Po]} is represented by @samp{£} in @acronym{HTML} 4.0.
+@samp{\[Po]} is represented by @samp{£} in HTML 4.0.
For efficiency, these data are now compiled directly into
@code{grohtml}. @code{grops} uses the field to build sub-encoding
arrays for PostScript fonts containing more than 256 glyphs. Anything
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