Explicit is better than implicit. Get rid of another macro that

obscured what was actually going on.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/man/groff_tmac.man b/man/groff_tmac.man
index 5b2032c3..6a076b2a 100644
--- a/man/groff_tmac.man
+++ b/man/groff_tmac.man
@@ -54,13 +54,6 @@ FDL in the main directory of the groff source package.
 .  nop \)\\$*\)
 ..
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
-.de 'char
-.  ds @tmp@ `\f(CR\\$1\f[]'
-.  shift
-.  Text \\*[@tmp@]\\$*
-.  rm @tmp@
-..
-.\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .de option
 .  ds @tmp@ \f(CB\\$1\f[]
 .  shift 1
@@ -533,8 +526,7 @@ intervening space, this looked like a long option preceded by a single
 minus \[em] a sensation in the computer stone age.
 .
 To make this optically working for macro package names, all classical
-macro packages choose a name that started with the letter
-.'char m ,
+macro packages choose a name that started with the letter `m',
 which was omitted in the naming of the macro file.
 .
 .
@@ -553,10 +545,8 @@ for short.
 .
 .
 .P
-For similar reasons, macro packages that did not start with an
-.'char m
-had a leading
-.'char m
+For similar reasons, macro packages that did not start with an `m'
+had a leading `m'
 added in the documentation and in talking; for example, the package
 corresponding to
 .I tmac.doc
@@ -573,8 +563,7 @@ command line option for activating this package reads
 To cope with all situations, actual versions of
 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@)
 are smart about both naming schemes by providing two macro files
-for the inflicted macro packages; one with a leading
-.'char m ,
+for the inflicted macro packages; one with a leading `m'
 the other one without it.
 .
 So in
@@ -593,10 +582,8 @@ macro package may be specified as on of the following four methods:
 .
 .
 .P
-Recent packages that do not start with
-.'char m
-do not use an additional
-.'char m
+Recent packages that do not start with `m'
+do not use an additional `m'
 in the documentation.
 .
 For example, the
@@ -645,8 +632,7 @@ In
 .IR groff ,
 most macro packages are described in\~man pages called
 .BR groff_\f[I]name\f[] (@MAN7EXT@),
-with a leading
-.'char m
+with a leading `m'
 for the classical packages.
 .
 .
@@ -779,23 +765,23 @@ abbreviations for those preprocessor commands that should be run
 when formatting the document.
 .
 Mostly, only the letters corresponding to the options for the
-preprocessors are recognized,
-.'char e
+preprocessors are recognized, 
+`e'
 (for
 .BR eqn ),
-.\" 'char G ,
-.\" 'char g ,
-.'char p ,
+.\" `G',
+.\" `g',
+`p`
 (for
 .BR pic ),
-.'char R
+`R'
 (for
 .BR refer ),
-.'char s
+`s'
 (for
 .BR soelim ),
 and
-.'char t
+`t'
 (for
 .BR tbl ).
 (see
@@ -814,10 +800,7 @@ The
 .I man
 program handles some preprocessors automatically, such that in
 man\~pages only the following characters should be used:
-.'char e ,
-.'char p ,
-and
-.'char t .
+`e', `p', and `t'.
 .
 .
 ..