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-rw-r--r-- | man/groff_char.7.man | 13 |
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diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man index 4e5f4658e..0c0cf2c81 100644 --- a/man/groff_char.7.man +++ b/man/groff_char.7.man @@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ as does . . .P -The special character escape for the apostrophe as a neutral single -quote is typically needed only in technical content; +The special character escape sequence for the apostrophe as a neutral +single quote is typically needed only in technical content; typing words like \[lq]can't\[rq] and \[lq]Anne's\[rq] in a natural way will render correctly, because in ordinary prose an apostrophe is typeset either as a closing @@ -809,8 +809,8 @@ is the code point of the character, a decimal number between 0 and\~255 without leading zeroes. . -This legacy numeric special character escape is used to map characters -onto glyphs via the +This legacy numeric special character escape sequence is used to map +characters onto glyphs via the .B trin request in macro files loaded by .MR grotty @MAN1EXT@ . @@ -1036,7 +1036,8 @@ request designates a special character as combining. The .I composite.tmac macro file, -loaded automatically by default, +loaded automatically by the default +.IR troffrc , maps the following special characters to the combining characters shown below. . @@ -1559,7 +1560,7 @@ _ \[st] \e[st] u220B such that \[3d] \e[3d] u2234 therefore \[tf] \e[tf] u2234 therefore -\[or] | u007C bar +| | u007C bar \[or] \e[or] u007C bitwise or + .TE . |