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commit ef76b617bd0dcf18b804c4a5f0cf86f644d96561
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Jan 4 06:57:03 2026 -0600
[doc,man]: Tweak "Motion quanta" material.
* Tighten wording.
* Break input lines consistently between Texinfo and man pages.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 13 ++++++++-----
man/groff.7.man | 10 +++++-----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index 55159249d..ab6c2aa18 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -6868,11 +6868,14 @@ Hundredth of an em.
@c BEGIN Keep (roughly) parallel with subsection "Motion quanta" of
@c groff(7).
-An output device's basic unit @code{u} is not necessarily its smallest
-addressable length; @code{u} can be smaller to avoid problems with
-integer roundoff. The minimum distances that a device can work with in
-the horizontal and vertical directions are termed its @dfn{motion
-quanta}.
+The basic unit
+@code{u}
+is not necessarily an output device's smallest addressable length;
+@code{u}
+can be smaller to avoid integer rounding errors.
+The minimum distances that a device can work with
+in the horizontal and vertical directions are termed its
+@dfn{motion quanta}.
The formatter rounds measurements to applicable motion quanta.
Half-quantum fractions round toward zero.
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 70e27df61..501afff16 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -987,14 +987,14 @@ Hundredth of an em.
.\" ====================================================================
.
.\" BEGIN Keep (roughly) parallel with groff.texi node "Motion Quanta".
-An output device's basic unit
+The basic unit
.B u
-is not necessarily its smallest addressable length;
+is not necessarily an output device's smallest addressable length;
.B u
-can be smaller to avoid problems with integer roundoff.
+can be smaller to avoid integer rounding errors.
.
-The minimum distances that a device can work with in the horizontal and
-vertical directions are termed its
+The minimum distances that a device can work with
+in the horizontal and vertical directions are termed its
.I "motion quanta,"
stored in the
.B .H
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