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author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-05-04 16:57:14 -0500 |
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committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-05-04 18:31:52 -0500 |
commit | 34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1 (patch) | |
tree | 0302c22237e385772ed9e8354063199fcbdf0ec0 /man | |
parent | 2c9bbaff24abe045da23add93331305b667f6075 (diff) | |
download | groff-git-34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1.tar.gz |
[docs]: Tighten wording.
This recovers good page breaks in roff(7).
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-rw-r--r-- | man/roff.7.man | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man index 736afbc57..d53b743c7 100644 --- a/man/roff.7.man +++ b/man/roff.7.man @@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The exceptions separate words. .P A .I roff -formatter attempts to detect the boundaries between sentences, +formatter attempts to detect boundaries between sentences, and supplies additional inter-sentence space between them. . -It does this by flagging certain characters +It flags certain characters (normally .RB \[lq] !\& \[rq], .RB \[lq] ?\& \[rq], @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ at the end of an input line, or one of them is followed by two (unescaped) spaces on the same input line, it appends an inter-word space -followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output. +followed by an inter-sentence space in the output. . The dummy character escape sequence .B \[rs]& @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ In the distinction between those two elements is not always obvious (and a full discussion is beyond our scope). . -To roughly characterize, +In brief, \[lq]A\[rq] is a character when we consider it in the abstract: to make it a glyph, we must select a typeface with which to render it, |