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commit ce6beb6b117ce1d8837ef07a7b6e769c6bab3b8c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 29 04:09:36 2025 -0500
doc/*,man/*: Keep kicking "typographical points".
* Fix missing article.
* Sync text between Texinfo and groff_diff(7).
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 22 +++++++++++-----------
man/groff_diff.7.man | 2 +-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index df527c5c1..9a28cb2ce 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -13201,19 +13201,17 @@ specifies
@var{sizescale}
and otherwise defaults to@tie{}1.@footnote{@xref{Device and Font
Description Files}.}
-Requests and escape sequences in GNU
+GNU
@command{troff}
-interpret arguments that accept a numerical expression
-indicating a type size defaulting to units of typographical points,
-@c Legacy forms of the `\s` escape sequence don't accept numerical
-@c expressions--only integers.
-which the formatter multiplies by
-@var{sizescale}
-and converts to an integer.
-The scaling unit
-@code{z}
-explicitly specifies these typographical points of potentially
+also defines the
+@dfn{typographical point},
+scaling unit
+@code{z},
+which explicitly specifies a type size of potentially
non-integral measure.
+The program multiplies typographical points by
+@var{sizescale}
+and converts the value to an integer.
Arguments GNU
@command{troff} @c GNU
interprets in
@@ -13222,6 +13220,8 @@ units by default comprise those to the escape sequences
@code{\H}
and
@code{\s},
+@c Legacy forms of the `\s` escape sequence don't accept numerical
+@c expressions--only integers.
to the request
@code{ps},
the third argument to the
diff --git a/man/groff_diff.7.man b/man/groff_diff.7.man
index 5375e0659..2714f4c8c 100644
--- a/man/groff_diff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_diff.7.man
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ also defines the
.I "typographical point,"
scaling unit
.BR z ,
-which explicitly specifies type size of potentially
+which explicitly specifies a type size of potentially
non-integral measure.
The program multiplies typographical points by
.I sizescale
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