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@@ -1725,8 +1725,7 @@ one twelfth of the spacewidth parameter for the current font.
Initially both the word space size and the sentence
space size are 12.
Contrary to UNIX troff, GNU troff handles this request in nroff mode
-also (if not in compatibility mode); a given value is then rounded down
-to the nearest multiple of\~12.
+also; a given value is then rounded down to the nearest multiple of\~12.
The sentence space size is used in two circumstances:
if the end of a sentence occurs at the end of a line in fill mode, then
both an inter-word space and a sentence space will be added;