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commit f07defb0d5501ffe6f4f39d7a99b2c8dd6a91413
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Apr 16 11:39:59 2026 -0500
[doc,man]: Clarify pipeline handling.
groff still constructs pipelines (if the system permits); the difference
from historical troffs is that the pipelining is largely _implicit_.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 2 +-
src/roff/groff/groff.1.man | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index a0e39fdd9..d5d4f2bda 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ GNU
@code{roff}
system make it easier to use than traditional
@code{roff}s
-that required the construction of pipelines
+that required the explicit construction of pipelines
or use of temporary files to carry a source document
from maintainable form to device-ready output.
@c END Keep parallel with groff(1), section "Usage" (introduction).
diff --git a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
index 4d493f021..dc784be4d 100644
--- a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
+++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ GNU
.I roff
system make it easier to use than traditional
.IR roff s
-that required the construction of pipelines
+that required the explicit construction of pipelines
or use of temporary files to carry a source document
from maintainable form to device-ready output.
.
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