Don't use future tense.

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 92760e67..e2c536d2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -128,15 +128,15 @@ o ms.tmac
       heading, defined by `NH' or `SH', before any automatic page break.
 
     GROWPS
-      Sets the first level of heading (set with `NH') which will keep the
+      Sets the first level of heading (set with `NH') which keeps the
       same point size as body text.
 
     PSINCR
       Sets the point size increment for each level of heading (set with
       `NH'), below the threshold level set by `GROWPS'; e.g., if
-      \n[PS] = 10, \n[GROWPS] = 3 and \n[PSINCR] = 2.0p, then `.NH 1' will
-      produce 14pt headings, `.NH 2' will produce 12pt, and all other levels
-      will remain at 10pt (because \n[PS] = 10).
+      \n[PS] = 10, \n[GROWPS] = 3 and \n[PSINCR] = 2.0p, then `.NH 1'
+      produces 14pt headings, `.NH 2' produces 12pt, and all other
+      levels remain at 10pt (because \n[PS] = 10).
 
   . The `SH' macro now accepts a numeric argument, to make heading size
     match that of `NH' with same argument value when the `GROWPS'/`PSINCR'
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ o The argument of the command line option `-I' is now also passed to troff
   files named in `so' and `psbb' requests, and files named in \X'ps: file'
   and \X'ps: import' escapes.
 
-o If option `-V' is used more than once, the commands will be both printed
+o If option `-V' is used more than once, the commands are both printed
   on standard error and run.
 
 Troff
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ o Composite glyphs are now supported.  To do this, a subset of the Adobe
 
     .composite from to
 
-  will change the mapping while a composite glyph name is constructed.
+  changes the mapping while a composite glyph name is constructed.
   To make \[A ho] yield the expected result,
 
     .composite ho u0328
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ o The new request `sizes' is similar to the `sizes' command in DESC files.
   final `0' can be omitted.
 
 o `trin' (translate input) is a new request which is similar to `tr' with
-  the exception that the `asciify' request will use the character code (if
+  the exception that the `asciify' request uses the character code (if
   any) before the character translation.  Example:
 
     .trin ax
@@ -858,12 +858,11 @@ o Changes in www.tmac:
     The image position parameter names in `IMG' have been changed to `-L',
     `-R', and `-C'.
 
-    New macro `PIMG' for inclusion of a PNG image (it will automatically
-    convert it into an EPS file if not -Thtml is used).
+    New macro `PIMG' for inclusion of a PNG image (it automatically
+    converts it into an EPS file if not -Thtml is used).
 
     New macro `MPIMG' for putting a PNG image into the left or right margin
-    (it will automatically convert it into an EPS file if not
-    -Thtml is used).
+    (it automatically converts it into an EPS file if not -Thtml is used).
 
     New macros `HnS', `HnE' to start and end a header line block.
 
@@ -1019,7 +1018,7 @@ Miscellaneous
 
 o A new manual page `ditroff.7' is available.
 
-o The groff texinfo manual will now be installed, together with a bunch
+o The groff texinfo manual is installed now, together with a bunch
   of examples.
 
 o A new keyword `papersize' has been added to the DESC file format.  Its
@@ -1234,10 +1233,10 @@ o For compatibility with sqtroff, the request `output' has been added.
   inserts its argument into the intermediate output format.  The syntax
   is similar to .tm1, allowing leading whitespace.
 
-o The new `spreadwarn' request will make troff warn if spaces in an output
+o The new `spreadwarn' request makes troff warn if spaces in an output
   line are widened by a given limit or more.
 
-o Use `warnscale' to change the scaling indicator troff will use for
+o Use `warnscale' to change the scaling indicator troff uses for
   warning messages.
 
 o A new request `dei' (define indirect) has been added.  The first and
@@ -1444,7 +1443,7 @@ Added .LINE macro to tmac.arkup.
 The obsolete `.LINK' macro has been removed.
 
 .URL, .FTP, and .MAILTO macros now accept an optional third argument which
-will be immediately appended to the second argument (to be used with
+is immediately appended to the second argument (to be used with
 punctuation, for example).
 
 Grodvi
@@ -1479,7 +1478,7 @@ pseudo-random numbers to be returned by `rand'.
 Gxditview
 ---------
 
-Simplified installation: The Imakefile will now be configured (by groff's
+Simplified installation: The Imakefile is now configured (by groff's
 configure script).
 
 Documentation
@@ -1531,7 +1530,7 @@ word `UNIX'.
 groff should now be Y2k safe (fixes contributed by Paul Eggert
 <eggert@twinsun.com>).
 
-Following the GNU standards, groff will now use the prefix `/usr/local/' as
+Following the GNU standards, groff now uses the prefix `/usr/local/' as
 the default instead of replacing an existent groff binary.
 
 groff, troff, nroff, and pic now support the -U flag to activate unsafe
@@ -1628,8 +1627,8 @@ The -m option enables manual feed.
 VERSION 1.09
 ============
 
-\(rn will now produce a character that has the traditional metrics,
-and will form corners with \(ul and \(br.  This means that it will not
+\(rn now produces a character that has the traditional metrics,
+and form corners with \(ul and \(br.  This means that it does not
 align properly with \(sr.  Instead there's a new character
 \[radicalex] which aligns with \(sr; this is used by eqn for doing
 square roots.
@@ -1652,7 +1651,7 @@ VERSION 1.08
 Troff
 -----
 
-The escape sequence \V[xxx] will interpolate the value of the
+The escape sequence \V[xxx] interpolates the value of the
 environment variable xxx.
 
 Tbl
@@ -1757,7 +1756,7 @@ newline is ignored.
 The `shc' request tells troff which character to insert (instead of
 the default \(hy) when a word is hyphenated at a line break.
 
-A font name of 0 (zero) in the DESC file will cause no font to be
+A font name of 0 (zero) in the DESC file causes no font to be
 mounted on the corresponding font position.  This is useful for
 arranging that special fonts are mounted on positions on which users
 are not likely explicitly to mount fonts.  All groff devices now avoid
@@ -1812,7 +1811,7 @@ fonts in newer PostScript printers by using -mpsnew.
 The default value of the -b option is specified by a `broken' command
 in the DESC file.
 
-With the -g option, grops will generate PostScript code that guesses
+With the -g option, grops generates PostScript code that guesses
 the page height.  This allows documents to be printed on both letter
 (8.5x11) and A4 paper without change.
 
@@ -1840,13 +1839,13 @@ release, the vertical spacing is controlled by the $v and $V registers
 which have the same meaning as $r and $R in earlier groff releases.
 In addition, if the $r or $R register is set to a value that would be
 correct for for the BSD -me macros and a low resolution device is not
-being used, then an appropriate value for the $v or $V register will
-be derived from the $r or $R register.
+being used, then an appropriate value for the $v or $V register
+is derived from the $r or $R register.
 
 The groff -me macros work with -C and (I think) with Unix troff.
 
 For backward compatibility with BSD -me, the \*{ and \*} strings are
-also available as \*[ and \*].  Of course, \*[ will only be usable
+also available as \*[ and \*].  Of course, \*[ is only usable
 with -C.
 
 The \*T string has been deleted.  Use \*(Tm instead.
@@ -1881,7 +1880,7 @@ contexts.
 Grotty
 ------
 
-Horizontal and vertical lines drawn with \D'l ...' will be rendered
+Horizontal and vertical lines drawn with \D'l ...' are rendered
 using -, | and + characters.  This is intended to give reasonable
 results with boxed tables.  It won't work well with pic.
 
@@ -1894,7 +1893,7 @@ compatible with earlier versions; the old version is still available
 as -mdoc.old.  The grog script has been enhanced so that it can
 usually determine whether a document requires the old or new versions.
 
-With -TX75, -TX100 and -TXps, the PSPIC macro will produce a box
+With -TX75, -TX100 and -TXps, the PSPIC macro produces a box
 around where the picture would appear with -Tps.
 
 VERSION 1.04
@@ -1941,7 +1940,7 @@ There is an alternative perl implementation of the grog script.
 The code field in lines in the charset section of font description
 files is now allowed to contain an arbitrary integer (previously it
 was required to lie between 0 and 255).  Currently grops and grodvi
-use only the low order 8 bits of the value.  Grodvi will use the
+use only the low order 8 bits of the value.  Grodvi uses the
 complete value; however, this is unlikely to be useful with
 traditional TeX tools (.tfm files only allow 8 bit character codes.)
 
@@ -2007,7 +2006,7 @@ Xditview
 --------
 
 Parts of xditview have been rewritten so that it can be used with the
-output of gtroff -Tps.  groff -TXps will run gtroff -Tps with
+output of gtroff -Tps.  groff -TXps runs gtroff -Tps with
 gxditview.
 
 There is a new menu entry `Print' which brings up a dialog box for
@@ -2026,13 +2025,13 @@ horizontally before being applied.  This makes (almost) no difference
 for devices with `hor' equal to 1, but it makes groff with -Tascii or
 -Tlatin1 behave more like nroff in its treatment of these scale
 indicators.  Accordingly tmac.tty now calls the `nroff' request so
-that the `n' condition will be true.
+that the `n' condition is true.
 
 The device-specific macros (tmac.ps, tmac.dvi, tmac.tty and tmac.X)
 have been made to work at least somewhat with -C.  In particular the
 special characters defined by these macros now work with -C.
 
-groff -Tdvi -p will now pass pic the -x flag; this will enable filling
+groff -Tdvi -p now passes pic the -x flag; this enables filling
 of arrowheads and boxes, provided that your dvi driver supports the
 latest version of the tpic specials.
 
@@ -2041,7 +2040,7 @@ Eqn
 
 There is a new `-N' option that tells eqn not to allow newlines in
 delimiters.  This allows eqn to recover better from missing closing
-delimiters.  The groff command will pass on a `-N' option to eqn.
+delimiters.  The groff command passes on a `-N' option to eqn.
 
 Grops
 -----
@@ -2092,15 +2091,15 @@ There are `break' and `continue' requests for use with the `while'
 request.
 
 There is a request `hym' that can ensure that when the current
-adjustment mode is not `b' a line will not be hyphenated if it is no
+adjustment mode is not `b' a line is not hyphenated if it is no
 more than a given amount short, and a request `hys' that can ensure
-that when the current adjustment mode is `b' a line will not be
+that when the current adjustment mode is `b' a line is not
 hyphenated if it can be justified by adding no more than a given
 amount of extra space to each word space.
 
 There is a request `rj' similar to `ce' that right justifies lines.
 
-A warning of type `space' will be given when a call is made to an
+A warning of type `space' is given when a call is made to an
 undefined request or macro with a name longer than two characters, and
 the first two characters of the name make a name that is defined.
 This is intended to find places where a space has been omitted been a
@@ -2202,7 +2201,7 @@ space truncated by the most recently sprung vertical position trap,
 that caused a vertical position trap to be sprung.
 
 The `cf' request now behaves sensibly in a diversion.  If used in a
-diversion, it will now arrange for the file to be copied to the output
+diversion, it now arranges for the file to be copied to the output
 when the diversion is reread.
 
 There is a new request `trf' (transparent file) similar to `cf', but
@@ -2251,7 +2250,7 @@ Arguments of the form `X anything X' (in the `copy thru', `sh', `for',
 `if' and `define' constructs) can now be of the form `{ anything }'.
 
 If the `linethick' variable is negative (as it now is initially),
-lines will be drawn with a thickness proportional to the current point
+lines are drawn with a thickness proportional to the current point
 size.
 
 The `rand' function now takes no arguments and returns a number between