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authorwlemb <wlemb>2002-04-26 06:59:34 +0000
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* doc/groff.texinfo: Integrated groff_out.man.
Some macro fixes. * man/groff_out.man: Minor fixes.
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--- a/man/groff_out.man
+++ b/man/groff_out.man
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.ig
groff_out.5
-Last update: 10 Apr 2002
+Last update: 24 Apr 2002
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff type-setting system.
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ program before it is fed into a device postprocessor program.
As the GNU roff processor
.BR groff (@MAN1EXT@)
is a wrapper program around troff that automatically calls a
-postprocessor, this output does not show up automatically.
+postprocessor, this output does not show up normally.
.
This is why it is called
.I intermediate
@@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ describes what is output by the GNU troff program, while
refers to the language that is accepted by the parser that prepares
this output for the postprocessors.
.
-This parser is smarter on white space and implements obsolete elements
+This parser is smarter on whitespace and implements obsolete elements
for compatibility, otherwise both formats are the same.
.
-The pre-groff roff versions are denoted by
+The pre-groff roff versions are denoted as
.I classical
.IR troff .
.
@@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ language.
While the
.I groff
language is a high-level programming language for text processing, the
-intermediate output language is a kind of low-level assembler by
-specifying all positions on the page for writing and drawing.
+intermediate output language is a kind of low-level assembler language
+by specifying all positions on the page for writing and drawing.
.
.P
The intermediate output produced by
@@ -348,14 +348,14 @@ for device controlling.
.\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
.
.I Classical troff output
-had strange requirements on white space.
+had strange requirements on whitespace.
.
The
.I groff
-output parser, however, is smart about white space by making it
+output parser, however, is smart about whitespace by making it
maximally optional.
.
-The white space characters, i.e.\& the
+The whitespace characters, i.e.\& the
.IR tab ,
.IR space ,
and
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ separated by syntactical space.
.P
A line break is a syntactical element, too.
.
-Every command argument can be followed by white space, a comment, or a
+Every command argument can be followed by whitespace, a comment, or a
newline character.
.
Thus a
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ The names of characters and fonts can be of arbitrary length.
A character that is to be printed will always be in the current font.
.
.P
-A string argument is always terminated by the next white space
+A string argument is always terminated by the next whitespace
character (space, tab, or newline); an embedded
.B #
character is regarded as part of the argument, not as the beginning of
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ with the arguments set as outlined in the section
.BR "Device Control Commands" .
.
But the parser for the intermediate output format is able to swallow
-additional white space and comments as well.
+additional whitespace and comments as well.
.
.P
The
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ single character, taking a fixed number of arguments.
.
Most of them are commands for positioning and text writing.
.
-These commands are smart about white space.
+These commands are smart about whitespace.
.
Optionally,
.I syntactical space
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ for the filling color of graphic objects is
.BR DF .
.
The color components are specified as integer arguments between 0 and
-\n[@maxcolor] with black having all components\~0.
+\n[@maxcolor].
.
The number of color components and their meaning vary for the
different color schemes.
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ doesn't use this.
.
.
.command w
-Informs about a paddable white space to increase readability.
+Informs about a paddable whitespace to increase readability.
.
The spacing itself must be performed explicitly by a move command.
.
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ The spacing itself must be performed explicitly by a move command.
Each graphics or drawing command in the intermediate output starts
with the letter\~\c
.B D
-followed by another single character that specifies a subcommand; this
+followed by one or two characters that specify a subcommand; this
is followed by a fixed or variable number of integer arguments that
are separated by a single space character.
.
@@ -997,16 +997,16 @@ graphics, and the outline of graphic objects is
.BR m .
.
The color components are specified as integer arguments between 0 and
-\n[@maxcolor] with black having all components\~0.
+\n[@maxcolor].
.
The number of color components and their meaning vary for the
different color schemes.
.
These commands are generated by the groff escape sequences
-.B \*[@backslash]DF
+.B \*[@backslash]D'F\ .\|.\|.'
and
.B \*[@backslash]M
-(with no other corresponding graphics command).
+(with no other corresponding graphics commands).
.
No position changing.
.
@@ -1276,8 +1276,8 @@ while
.argument h
is the minimal horizontal motion, and
.argument v
-the minimal vertical motion; all arguments are positive integers in
-basic units\~\c
+the minimal vertical motion possible with this device; all arguments
+are positive integers in basic units\~\c
.unit u
per inch.
.
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ this is actually just ignored.
.xsub Typesetter
Set name of device to word
.argument xxx ,
-a sequence of characters ended by the next white space character.
+a sequence of characters ended by the next whitespace character.
.
The possible device names coincide with those from the groff
.B -T
@@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ strange command that combined a horizontal move and the printing of a
character.
.
It didn't have a command code, but is represented by a 3-character
-argument consisting of exactly 2 digits and a character.
+argument consisting of exactly 2\~digits and a character.
.
.TP
.argument ddc
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ of variable length a separating space is obligatory.
In
.I classical
.IR troff ,
-large cluster of these and other commands were used, mostly without
+large clusters of these and other commands were used, mostly without
spaces; this made such output almost unreadable.
.
.RE
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ This output can be fed into the postprocessor
.BR xditview (1x)
or
.BR gxditview (@MAN1EXT@)
-for displaying in X window.
+for displaying in\~X.
.
.P
Due to the obsolete jump-and-write command, the text clusters in the