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commit a18efe62807b77caf18da08ab2095bd35577277d
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 15 17:37:55 2026 -0600
doc/groff.texi.in: Tweak "Debugging" section.
* Recast; challenging debuggability is not a unique property of GNU
troff, and in fact it's easier with our *roff than any other. Who
else empowers you to dump the abstract syntax tree of the document?
* Locate synchroniztion comment bumper more precisely.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index d1376a36a..a5b6c617e 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -20335,7 +20335,6 @@ restore tokens are removed.
@c =====================================================================
@need 1000
-@c BEGIN Keep parallel with section "Debugging" of groff(7).
@node Debugging, Implementation Differences, GNU @command{troff} Internals,
GNU troff Reference
@section Debugging
@cindex debugging
@@ -20347,15 +20346,17 @@ front of it until it works and if you still have
problems add a \c.}
@c https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-February/023137.html
@end flushright
-GNU
-@command{troff} @c GNU
-is not the easiest language to debug,
+The
+@code{roff}
+language family
+is not the easiest to debug,
in part thanks to its design features
of recursive interpolation
and the use of multi-stage pipeline processing
in the surrounding system.
Nevertheless there exist several features useful for troubleshooting.
+@c BEGIN Keep parallel with section "Debugging" of groff(7).
Preprocessors use the @code{lf} request to preserve the identity of the
line numbers and names of input files.
GNU
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