[groff] 05/16: gpinyin(1) (Syllables): Tighten wording.

[G. Branden Robinson]

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commit 96c1952c465dfbd7127128c39b276209c333df00
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Oct 17 05:26:09 2020 +1100

    gpinyin(1) (Syllables): Tighten wording.
    
    Stop referring to ASCII.  Drop Wikipedia URLs.  If a reader doesn't know
    how to look something up in an encyclopedia, we can't help them.
---
 contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man | 34 +++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
index a66a3f2..4b2f130 100644
--- a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
@@ -146,18 +146,12 @@ or
 .SS Syllables
 .\" ====================================================================
 .
-The spoken Chinese language is based on about 411
-.IR syllables ;
-see
-.UR http://\:en.wikipedia.org/\:wiki/\:Pinyin_table
-.UE .
-.
+The phonetic Chinese language comprises about four hundred syllables.
 .
-.P
 In Pinyin,
-each syllable consists of one to six letters from the Latin alphabet;
-these letters comprise the fifty-two upper- and lowercase letters from
-the ASCII character set,
+each syllable is represented by one to six letters drawn from the
+fifty-two upper- and lowercase letters of the Unicode basic Latin
+character set,
 plus the letter \[lq]U\[rq] with dieresis (umlaut) in both cases\[em]in
 other words,
 the members of the set \[lq][a\[en]zA\[en]Z\[:u]\[:U]]\[rq].
@@ -167,7 +161,7 @@ the members of the set \[lq][a\[en]zA\[en]Z\[:u]\[:U]]\[rq].
 In
 .I groff
 input,
-all ASCII letters are written as themselves.
+all basic Latin letters are written as themselves.
 .
 The \[lq]u with dieresis\[rq] can be written as
 \[lq]\e[:u]\[rq]
@@ -256,24 +250,6 @@ Bernd Warken
 .
 Useful documents on the World Wide Web related to Pinyin include
 .RS 4n
-.br
-.UR http://\:en.wikipedia.org/\:wiki/\:Pinyin
-\[lq]Pinyin\[rq] (Wikipedia)
-.UE ,
-.
-.br
-.UR http://\:en.wikipedia.org/\:wiki/\:Pinyin_table
-\[lq]Pinyin table\[rq] (Wikipedia)
-.UE ,
-.
-.\" XXX: dead link
-.\".br
-.\".UR http://\:www.sino.uni\-heidelberg.de/\:course_resources/\:s02/\:\
-.\"py\-vowels.htm
-.\".I Unicode vowels for Pinyin
-.\".UE ,
-.\".
-.br
 .UR http://\:www.foolsworkshop.com/\:ptou/\:index.html
 .I Pinyin to Unicode
 .UE ,