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commit 650b43c453603faeb5dec41356456e95144ede73
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Apr 28 22:41:15 2026 -0500
NEWS: Wordsmith.
* Favor active voice over passive in topic sentences.
* Apply parentheses to phrase that frustrated grammatical parallelism in
a serial list.
---
NEWS | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe1816a97..5cab6056c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ troff
process a list of similar objects, as `rm` and `rr` do) perform no
operation.
-* The "delim", "syntax", and "escape" warning categories are enabled by
- default.
+* The formatter now enables the "delim", "syntax", and "escape" warning
+ categories by default.
* The `trf` (transparent file throughput) request now discards input
characters that are invalid in GNU troff's output format, meaning all
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ troff
lines remaining to be be underlined in the environment (as configured
by either the `cu` or `ul` requests).
-* A new warning category, "style" is supported. It is used to diagnose
- input that is non-idiomatic or likely to produce an unexpected result
- (or none at all), but is not invalid.
+* The formatter supports a new warning category, "style". It is used
+ to diagnose input that is non-idiomatic or likely to produce an
+ unexpected result (or none at all), but is not invalid.
* When issuing warning diagnostic messages, GNU troff now reports the
warning category governing its emission. This change is to make it
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ troff
operand (first request argument) unchanged instead of emptying it.
* The `phw` request now accepts arguments. Each is interpreted as a
- possible hyphenation word, ignoring hyphens in the input, looked
+ possible hyphenation word (ignoring hyphens in the input), looked
up in the hyphenation exception list for the hyphenation language,
and if found, is reported with its hyphenation points. Only
hyphenation exceptions defined by the `hw` request are reported.
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