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@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
.el .ds ic \^
.TH GROFF_OUT @MAN5EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
.SH NAME
-groff_out \- format of groff output
+groff_out \- groff intermediate output format
.SH DESCRIPTION
-The output format used by groff is very similar to that used
-by device-independent troff. Only the differences are documented
+This manual page describes the format output by GNU troff.
+The output format used by GNU troff is very similar to that used
+by Unix device-independent troff. Only the differences are documented
here.
.LP
The argument to the
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ The first three output commands are guaranteed to be:
.LP
If the
.B tcommand
-line is present in the DESC file, gtroff will use the following
+line is present in the DESC file, troff will use the following
two commands
.TP
.BI t xxx
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ for drivers to search special fonts to find a character.
The
.B D
drawing command has been extended.
-These extensions will only be used by gpic
+These extensions will only be used by GNU pic if the
.B \-x
option is given.
.TP
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ for $i = 1 ,..., n+1$, the
vertex at the current position
$+ sum from j=1 to i-1 ( dx sub j , dy sub j )$.
At the moment,
-gpic only uses this command to generate triangles and rectangles.
+GNU pic only uses this command to generate triangles and rectangles.
.TP
\fBDP\fR $dx sub 1$ $dy sub 1$ $dx sub 2$ $dy sub 2$ $...$ $dx sub n$ $dy sub n$\en
Like
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ but draw a solid rather than outlined polygon.
Set the current line thickness to
.I n
machine units.
-Traditionally troff drivers use a line thickness proportional to the current
+Traditionally Unix troff drivers use a line thickness proportional to the current
point size; drivers should continue to do this if no
.B Dt
command has been given, or if a
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ selects the smallest available line thickness.
.LP
A difficulty arises in how the current position should be changed after
the execution of these commands.
-This is not of great importance since the code generated by gpic
+This is not of great importance since the code generated by GNU pic
does not depend on this.
Given a drawing command of the form
.IP
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ is not one of
.B a
or
.BR ~ ,
-troff will treat each of the $x sub i$ as a horizontal quantity,
+Unix troff will treat each of the $x sub i$ as a horizontal quantity,
and each of the $y sub i$ as a vertical quantity and will assume that
the width of the drawn object is $sum from i=1 to n x sub i$,
and that the height is $sum from i=1 to n y sub i$.
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ command in a \ew escape sequence.)
This rule also holds for all the original drawing commands
with the exception of
.BR De .
-For the sake of compatibility gtroff also follows this rule,
+For the sake of compatibility GNU troff also follows this rule,
even though it produces an ugly result in the case of the
.BR Df ,
.BR Dt ,
@@ -188,8 +189,7 @@ There is a continuation convention which permits the argument to the
command to contain newlines:
when outputting the argument to the
.B x\ X
-command,
-.B gtroff
+command, GNU troff
will follow each newline in the argument with a
.B +
character