From 34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "G. Branden Robinson" Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 16:57:14 -0500 Subject: [docs]: Tighten wording. This recovers good page breaks in roff(7). --- man/roff.7.man | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man index 736afbc57..d53b743c7 100644 --- a/man/roff.7.man +++ b/man/roff.7.man @@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The exceptions separate words. .P A .I roff -formatter attempts to detect the boundaries between sentences, +formatter attempts to detect boundaries between sentences, and supplies additional inter-sentence space between them. . -It does this by flagging certain characters +It flags certain characters (normally .RB \[lq] !\& \[rq], .RB \[lq] ?\& \[rq], @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ at the end of an input line, or one of them is followed by two (unescaped) spaces on the same input line, it appends an inter-word space -followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output. +followed by an inter-sentence space in the output. . The dummy character escape sequence .B \[rs]& @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ In the distinction between those two elements is not always obvious (and a full discussion is beyond our scope). . -To roughly characterize, +In brief, \[lq]A\[rq] is a character when we consider it in the abstract: to make it a glyph, we must select a typeface with which to render it, -- cgit v1.2.1