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commit 3009f72b56d21899c5475edca728cd344ad5919e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 1 22:00:53 2025 -0600
roff(7): Clarify what output drivers do.
An output driver need not produce a Turing-complete language. The term
"instructions" seems more appropriate to languages that are, and
"markup" to those that are not.
---
man/roff.7.man | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index c86984820..2b53a96ba 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -1787,8 +1787,8 @@ An
.I output driver
is a program that parses the output of
.I troff \" generic
-and produces instructions specific to the device or file format it
-supports.
+and produces instructions or markup
+specific to the device or file format it supports.
.
An output driver might support multiple devices,
particularly if they are similar.
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