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commit 4797b12ebb43a925ba7bbfbc60651c8e126a99a1
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 11 14:16:17 2026 -0500
doc/groff.texi.in: Drop repeated material.
Drop statements that are already made earlier (or, in one case, later).
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 36 ++----------------------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index 5b6c93b54..70054a68a 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -12998,9 +12998,6 @@ eggs, bacon, \fIspam,\fP and sausage.
@result{} eggs, bacon, @slanted{spam,} and sausage.
@endExample
-The currently and previously selected fonts are properties of the
-environment (@pxref{Environments}).
-
The read-only string-valued register @code{.fn} contains the resolved
font name of the selected font. Copy its value to a string to save it
for later use.
@@ -13016,9 +13013,7 @@ for later use.
The formatter does not tokenize
@code{\f}
when reading it;
-the escape sequence
-updates the environment.@footnote{@xref{Environments}.}
-It thus can be used in requests that expect a single-character argument.
+it thus can be used in requests that expect a single-character argument.
We can assign a font to a margin character
as follows.@footnote{@xref{Output Line Annotation}.}
@@ -13194,9 +13189,7 @@ GNU
does not tokenize
@code{\F}
when reading it;
-the escape sequence
-updates the environment.@footnote{@xref{Environments}.}
-It thus can be used in requests that expect a single-character argument.
+it thus can be used in requests that expect a single-character argument.
We can assign a font family to a margin character
as follows.@footnote{@xref{Output Line Annotation}.}
@@ -13830,19 +13823,6 @@ would collide with other escape sequences.
A few escape sequences that are not
special characters also produce glyphs;
these exist for syntactical or historical reasons.
-The formatter translates the four escape sequences
-@code{\'},
-@code{\-},
-@code{\_},
-and
-@code{\`},
-on input to the special character escape sequences
-@code{\[aa]},
-@code{\[-]},
-@code{\[ul]},
-and
-@code{\[ga]},
-respectively.
A special character name of length one is not the same thing as an
ordinary character: that is, the character @code{a} is not the same as
@@ -14640,18 +14620,6 @@ list of associated special fonts is empty for all
@var{f}.
@c TODO: Add requests `pspecial`, `pfspecial`?
-Invoking
-@code{special}
-(or
-@code{fspecial},
-for a given font
-@var{f})
-again overwrites the previous list;
-if you invoke them
-without arguments,
-GNU
-@command{troff} @c GNU
-empties the corresponding list.
@endDefreq
@c ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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