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commit 8bee76f0b5f563f26393ee901c3e24e9da53b388
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 16 09:58:28 2026 -0600
doc/groff.texi.in: Revise "Traps" section.
* Drop footnote; the man(7) and mdoc(7) packages now use the stated
technique.
* Break input lines in a roff-friendly way.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index 58691fbe4..352660f0d 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -18170,16 +18170,20 @@ This specific feature affects only the first
potential page break caused
by the end-of-input macro; further page breaks emitted by the macro are
handled normally.
-Another possible use of the @code{em} request is to make GNU
-@code{troff} emit a single large page instead of multiple pages. For
-example, one may want to produce a long plain text file for reading
-in a terminal or emulator without page footers and headers interrupting
-the body of the document. One approach is to set the page length at the
-beginning of the document to a very large value to hold all the
-text,@footnote{Another, taken by the @code{groff} @code{man} macros, is
-to intercept @code{ne} requests and wrap @code{bp} ones.} and
-automatically adjust it to the exact height of the document after the
-text has been output.
+Another possible use of the
+@code{em}
+request is to make
+GNU
+@command{troff} @c GNU
+emit a single large page instead of multiple pages.
+For example,
+one may want to produce a long plain text file
+for reading in a terminal or emulator
+without page footers and headers interrupting the body of the document.
+One approach is to set the page length at the beginning of the document
+to a very large value to hold all the text
+and automatically adjust it to the exact height of the document
+after the text has been output.
@Example
.de adjust-page-length
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