gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit c74b7a656a314af411fb8fdc156dbec91a7ba399
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 4 03:59:58 2026 -0500
groff_man_style(7): Tighten special char descs.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 23 ++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index b13392067..663a0c8cb 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -3152,8 +3152,8 @@ and perhaps with some other formatters.
.B \ee
Format the
.I roff
-escape character on the output;
-widely used in man pages to render a backslash glyph.
+escape character as a glyph;
+use this to format a backslash.
.
.\" Don't bold the ec request in this discussion; it's not a major
.\" topic of _this_ page as it would be in groff(7). Also, we don't
@@ -3161,7 +3161,7 @@ widely used in man pages to render a backslash glyph.
.\" attention to it.
It works reliably as long as the \[lq]ec\[rq] request is not used,
which should never happen in man pages,
-and it is slightly more portable than the more explicit
+and is portable to legacy implementations that lack the
.B \e[rs]
(\[lq]reverse solidus\[rq]) special character escape sequence.
.
@@ -3297,11 +3297,8 @@ Solaris
.
.TP
.B \e\-
-Minus sign.
-.
-.B \e\-
-produces the basic Latin hyphen-minus (U+002D) specifying Unix
-command-line options and frequently used in file names.
+Minus sign,
+used as the Unix command-line option prefix and in file names.
.
.RB \[lq] \- \[rq]
is a hyphen in
@@ -3327,10 +3324,8 @@ as a right single quotation mark.
.B \e[oq]
.TQ
.B \e[cq]
-Opening (left) and closing (right) single quotation marks.
-.
-Use these for paired directional single quotes,
-\[oq]like this\[cq].
+Opening (left) and closing (right) single quotation marks,
+used for \[oq]paired directional single quotes\[cq].
.
.
.TP
@@ -3365,9 +3360,7 @@ as an argument delimiter.
.TQ
.B \e[rq]
Left and right double quotation marks.
-.
-Use these for paired directional double quotes,
-\[lq]like this\[rq].
+used for \[oq]paired directional double quotes\[cq].
.
.
.TP
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