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commit b4a91b5c4336f8041c495eb5d991bb579cd8d868
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 8 18:18:19 2025 -0500
groff_man*(7): Fix content, style, markup nits.
* Tweak introduction to breaking and hyphenation.
* Keep fiddling the use of legacy special character escape sequence
syntax, applying it only for limited purposes in subsection "Strings".
* Tighten wording.
* Break input lines in better places.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index e9c64cc6e..7737a2104 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -251,15 +251,14 @@ are separated by spaces and newlines.
A transition to a new output line is called a
.I break.
.
-When formatted,
-a word may be broken at hyphens,
+Breaks can occur at explicit hyphens,
at
.B \e%
or
.B \e:
escape sequences
(see subsection \[lq]Portability\[rq] below),
-or at predetermined locations
+or at predetermined locations in a word
if automatic hyphenation is enabled
(see the
.B \-rHY
@@ -2323,7 +2322,7 @@ see section \[lq]Options\[rq] below.
.B \e*R
interpolates a special character escape sequence for the \[lq]registered
sign\[rq] glyph,
-.BR \e[rg] ,
+.BR \e(rg ,
if available,
and \[lq](Reg.)\[rq] otherwise.
.
@@ -2358,12 +2357,12 @@ _ifstyle()dnl
.
.
.P
-None of the above is necessary in a contemporary man page.
+A contemporary man page needs none of the above.
.
.B \e*S
-is superfluous,
-since type size changes are invisible on terminals and macros that
-change it restore its original value afterward.
+is superfluous;
+type size changes are invisible on terminals,
+and macros that change it restore its original value afterward.
.
Better alternatives exist for the rest;
simply use the
@@ -2374,12 +2373,13 @@ and
.B \[rs][tm] \" Heirloom Doctools, mandoc, neatmkfn, Plan 9
special character escape sequences directly.
.
-Unless you are aiming for a pathological level of portability\[em]perhaps
-composing a man page for consumption on simulators of 1980s Unix systems
+Unless you are aiming for a pathological level of portability\[em]\
+perhaps composing a man page
+for consumption on simulators of 1980s Unix systems
(or Solaris\~10
.IR troff ,
though even it supports
-.BR \[rs][rg] )\[em]\c
+.RB \[lq]\^ \[rs](rg \[rq])\[em]\c
avoid using the above strings.
.
.
@@ -3970,8 +3970,8 @@ program detects whether the
.I man
or
.I mdoc
-macro package is being used by a document and loads the correct macro
-definitions,
+macro package is used by a document
+and loads the correct macro definitions,
taking advantage of the fact that pages using them must call
.B TH
or
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