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+++ b/src/devices/grops/grops.man
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ for the PS Symbol font, and
containing slanted lowercase Greek letters taken from PS Symbol.
.
Zapf Dingbats is available as
-.BR ZD
+.BR ZD ,
and a reversed version of ZapfDingbats (with symbols pointing in the opposite
direction) is available as
.BR ZDR ;
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ The default color for
.B \[rs]m
and
.B \[rs]M
-is black; for colors defined in the `rgb' color space,
+is black; for colors defined in the `rgb' color space
.B setrgbcolor
is used, for `cmy' and `cmyk'
.BR setcmykcolor ,
@@ -596,7 +596,8 @@ and y\~coordinates increase down the page.
A procedure\~\c
.B u
is defined that converts groff units
-to the coordinate system in effect.
+to the coordinate system in effect (provided the user doesn't change the
+scale).
.
For example,
.
@@ -653,6 +654,26 @@ For example,
.
.LP
is another way to draw a horizontal line one inch long.
+.
+Note the single backslash before `nx' \[en] the only reason to use a number
+register while defining the macro `y' is to convert a user-specified
+dimension `1i' to internal groff units which are in turn converted to PS
+units with the
+.B u
+procedure.
+.
+.LP
+.B grops
+wraps user-specified PostScript code into a dictionary, nothing more.
+.
+In particular, it doesn't start and end the inserted code with
+.B save
+and
+.BR restore ,
+respectively.
+.
+This must be supplied by the user, if necessary.
+.
.RE
.
.TP