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| author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-01-18 13:20:40 -0600 |
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| committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-01-19 12:21:14 -0600 |
| commit | 9f8464418f193230a9bbf121be587a09fdf878b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 78f171a8c9b899e35281a4a0dac1f369957320b5 /tmac | |
| parent | b3b56727989536ff92942bf4de9064f7c4ab8d17 (diff) | |
| download | groff-git-9f8464418f193230a9bbf121be587a09fdf878b0.tar.gz | |
[ms]: Tighten wording in docs.
Diffstat (limited to 'tmac')
| -rw-r--r-- | tmac/groff_ms.7.man | 36 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/tmac/groff_ms.7.man b/tmac/groff_ms.7.man index db6896bc5..4fbe8e26c 100644 --- a/tmac/groff_ms.7.man +++ b/tmac/groff_ms.7.man @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ manuscript macro package for formatting documents .\" Legal Terms .\" ==================================================================== .\" -.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are @@ -1828,9 +1828,9 @@ and .B RF to set the left, center, -and right footers similarly. +and right footers. . -This approach works best for documents that do not distinguish odd- and +This approach suffices for documents that do not distinguish odd- and even-numbered pages. . . @@ -2309,11 +2309,9 @@ rather than silently to ignore them. . .IP \[bu] Tenth Edition \" possibly 9th -Research Unix supported a pair of -.B P1 -and -.B P2 -macros for setting code examples; +Research Unix supported +.BR P1 / P2 +macros to bracket code examples; .I groff ms does not. . @@ -2372,14 +2370,13 @@ but by setting it absolutely. This can cause problems for documents that define additional macros of their own that try to manipulate indentation. . -The solution is to use, -not the -.B in -request, -but +Use .B .RS and -.BR .RE . +.B .RE +instead of the +.B in +request. . . .IP \[bu] @@ -2408,9 +2405,8 @@ units. . See \[lq]Measurements\[rq] in the .I groff -Texinfo manual or the -.MR groff @MAN7EXT@ -man page.) +Texinfo manual or in +.MR groff @MAN7EXT@ ). . This threshold makes use of a scaling unit with these parameters practical for high-resolution devices while preserving backward @@ -2537,10 +2533,10 @@ The AT&T .I ms manual did not document the .B QI -register, -whereas Berkeley did; +register; +Berkeley and .I "groff ms" -accordingly supports it. +do. . . .IP \[bu] |