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commit 284ce662486f5acd08682c9524dc406735236e01
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Apr 16 12:55:44 2026 -0500
groff_man*(7): Fix style nits.
* Tighten wording.
* Favor "incorporated" over "added" where one man(7) implementation
adopted features of another, increasing portability.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index 4f4b9f340..05ee443f1 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -2633,8 +2633,8 @@ or register,
string,
and macro definitions,
causing a document's contents
-to be presented incomprehensibly
-or omitted entirely.
+to be omitted
+or presented incomprehensibly.
.
If your document uses formatter requests,
or escape sequences not shown below,
@@ -2776,7 +2776,9 @@ macros are written.
.B \e:
Insert a non-printing break point.
.
-A word can break at such a point,
+A word can break where
+.B \e:
+appears,
but a hyphen glyph is not written to the output if it does.
.
The remainder of the word is subject to hyphenation as normal.
@@ -3019,11 +3021,12 @@ roman,
or back to the previous style,
respectively.
.
-Either
+Use
+either
.B \ef
or
.B \ec
-is needed when three different font styles are required in a word.
+when three different font styles are required in one word.
.
.
.RS
@@ -3662,7 +3665,7 @@ and
.B X
registers.
.
-4.3BSD (1986) added
+4.3BSD (1986) incorporated
.\" undocumented DS and DE macros for "displays", which are RS/RE
.\" wrappers with filling disabled and vertical space of 1v before and
.\" .5v after, as well as...
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