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Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 2 02:53:02 2025 -0600
[doc,man]: Lean less hard on "transparent" crutch.
"Special" and "transparent" are the most abused words in the troff
documentary corpus.
Special *how*? Transparent *to what*?
Relatedly (to my jaundiced eye):
“My latest pet writing peeve: the use of "a kind of" and "a sort of." I
don't know when I began noticing this writing tic, in myself and in the
larger culture, and I don't know how long it has been around. I'm
certain I've seen these phrases in writing from as long as a century
ago, but it's all over the place now. I associate it with a sort
of—oops, I did it again!—literary affectation that one sees not only on
social media but in legacy media as well. Along the lines of Lionel
Trilling saying, "Goethe says somewhere...," but in a tweet, a post, or
a piece. It evokes a Jamesian spirit of the ineffable, the not quite,
the almost, that liminal space between the is and the is not. It's
meant to suggest a fineness of distinction, I suppose, the subtlety of
one's antenna. But it seems like little more than a cover for an
insufficiency of one's distinctions, a failure of thought, an inability
to state as fully as possible what one is thinking or trying to think.
I can't stand it. I'm going to try to stop. Kinda, sorta.”
-- Corey Robin
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 3 ++-
man/groff_diff.7.man | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index cbb7f2a95..ee7c825a3 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -20118,7 +20118,8 @@ The escape sequences
@code{\s},
and
@code{\S}
-are transparent at the beginning of a line,
+are transparent to control charcter recognition
+at the beginning of a line,
or after the conditional expression of an
@code{if}
or
diff --git a/man/groff_diff.7.man b/man/groff_diff.7.man
index c74d335c7..703432cd5 100644
--- a/man/groff_diff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_diff.7.man
@@ -6548,7 +6548,8 @@ The escape sequences
.BR \[rs]s ,
and
.B \[rs]S
-are transparent at the beginning of an input line,
+are transparent to control charcter recognition
+at the beginning of an input line,
or after the conditional expression of an
.RB \[lq] if \^\[rq]
or
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