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diff --git a/man/groff_out.man b/man/groff_out.man index c94f04402..9ad5389ba 100644 --- a/man/groff_out.man +++ b/man/groff_out.man @@ -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 |