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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-21 00:17:14 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-21 00:17:14 -0500
commit48a53e91839531c803694ef64c1d58a2cf85c8d1 (patch)
tree5a9ef00258953b6e6296f3542d7f9d83e72519fd /tmac
parent4dde143683d239a323d67ced01999307ba6c0554 (diff)
downloadgroff-git-48a53e91839531c803694ef64c1d58a2cf85c8d1.tar.gz
groff_man_style(7): Fix content nits.
* The no-break control character influences the interpretation of control lines, not requests per se. * Replace examples of typesetting output devices with their names in groff (i.e., as arguments to '-T')--not the names of the file formats these output devices generate.
Diffstat (limited to 'tmac')
-rw-r--r--tmac/groff_man.7.man.in11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index 5338a715c..3e06e853a 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -2563,9 +2563,9 @@ or Documenter's Workbench
Dummy character.
.
Insert at the beginning of an input line to prevent a dot or apostrophe
-from being interpreted as the beginning of a
+from being interpreted as beginning a
.I roff
-request.
+control line.
.
Append to an end-of-sentence punctuation sequence to keep it from being
recognized as such.
@@ -2580,8 +2580,11 @@ a non-breaking space.
.
Used primarily in ellipses
(\(lq.\e|.\e|.\(rq)
-to space the dots more pleasantly on typesetting devices like PostScript
-and PDF.
+to space the dots more pleasantly on typesetting devices like
+.BR dvi ,
+.BR pdf ,
+and
+.BR ps .
.
.
.TP