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commit d90d634f7ed24023b656a27a731979cd3067edcc
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 29 14:28:42 2025 -0600
groff_man*(7): Simplify refs to Solaris troff.
Say simply "Solaris troff" rather than "Solaris 10 troff"; Solaris 11
still ships its DWB 2.0/System V-descended troff. The system merely no
longer uses that troff for formatting man pages, employing (an old
version of) groff instead.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index a62fcdc76..896b4c4ca 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -747,8 +747,8 @@ and
(since 1.12.2)
support them.
.
-Solaris\~10
-.I troff \" Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.I troff \" Solaris
does not.
.\" Neatroff doesn't ship (m)an macros.
.
@@ -977,8 +977,8 @@ but not by
DWB,
Plan\~9,
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
_ifstyle()dnl
.
.
@@ -1074,8 +1074,8 @@ support these GNU extensions;
DWB,
Plan\~9,
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
do not.
.
.
@@ -1466,8 +1466,8 @@ but not by
DWB,
Plan\~9 (original),
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
.
Plan\~9 from User Space's
.I troff \" plan9port
@@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ and macros that change it restore its original value
afterward.
.
Better alternatives exist for the rest;
simply use the
-.BR \[rs][rg] , \" Heirloom Doctools, mandoc, neatmkfn, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+.BR \[rs][rg] , \" Heirloom Doctools, mandoc, neatmkfn, Plan 9, Solaris
.BR \[rs][lq] , \" Heirloom Doctools, mandoc, neatmkfn, Plan 9
.BR \[rs][rq] , \" Heirloom Doctools, mandoc, neatmkfn, Plan 9
and
@@ -2443,7 +2443,7 @@ 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
-(or Solaris\~10
+(or Solaris
.IR troff ,
though even it supports
.RB \[lq]\^ \[rs](rg \[rq])\[em]\c
@@ -2763,8 +2763,8 @@ but not by
DWB,
Plan\~9,
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
.\" as of this writing, 2022-08-13
.
.
@@ -2808,8 +2808,8 @@ Plan\~9 from User Space
but not by
DWB
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s. \" DWB, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s. \" DWB, Solaris
.\" as of this writing, 2022-08-13
.\" END Keep in sync with groff.texi node "Other Differences" and
.\" groff_diff(7).
@@ -3051,8 +3051,8 @@ like
DWB,
Plan\~9,
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff , \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff , \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
can be made to support them by defining them in font description files,
making them aliases of existing glyphs if necessary;
see
@@ -3072,8 +3072,8 @@ but not
DWB,
Plan\~9,
or
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s. \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
.
.
.TP
@@ -4645,8 +4645,8 @@ described in subsection \[lq]Portability\[rq] above.
DWB,
Plan\~9,
and
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
do not.
.
Interpolating the strings
@@ -4769,8 +4769,8 @@ and
DWB,
Plan\~9,
and
-Solaris\~10
-.IR troff s \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris 10
+Solaris
+.IR troff s \" DWB, Plan 9, Solaris
don't implement it.
.
If your man page requires portability to these formatters,
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