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diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi index 5d44e82d1..370dec978 100644 --- a/doc/groff.texi +++ b/doc/groff.texi @@ -12932,10 +12932,9 @@ the next iteration. A @dfn{macro} is a stored collection of text and control lines that can be interpolated multiple times. Use macros to define common operations. -Macros are called in the same way that requests are invoked. -@xref{Strings}, for a (limited) alternative syntax to call macros. -While requests exist for the purpose of creating macros, simply calling -an undefined macro, or interpolating it as a string, will cause it to be +Macros are called in the same way that requests are invoked. While +requests exist for the purpose of creating macros, simply calling an +undefined macro, or interpolating it as a string, will cause it to be defined as empty. @xref{Identifiers}. @Defreq {de, name [@Var{end}]} @@ -13582,8 +13581,8 @@ available. They are reckoned in ems---not vees---to maintain continuity with their original purpose of moving relative to the size of the type rather than the distance between text baselines (vees).@footnote{At the @code{grops} defaults of 10-point type on 12-point vertical spacing, the -difference between half a vee and half an em can be subtle: large -spacings like @samp{.vs 3v} make it obvious.} +difference between half a vee and half an em can be subtle:@: large +spacings like @samp{.vs .5i} make it obvious.} @DefescList {\\r, , , } @DefescItemx {\\u, , , } @@ -13670,8 +13669,7 @@ Move right by the width of a numeral in the current font. @endDefesc Horizontal motions are not discarded at the end of an output line as -word and supplementary inter-sentence spaces are. @xref{Manipulating -Filling and Adjustment}. +word spaces are. @xref{Breaking}. @DefescList {\\w, @code{'}, anything, @code{'}} @DefregItemx {st} |