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G. Branden Robinson |
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[groff] 29/30: [docs]: Revise introduction of vertical spacing. |
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Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:59:55 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 70b8938e4b98547eb94f6c3ea95f53fcbbd273e0
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 15 06:45:52 2022 -0500
[docs]: Revise introduction of vertical spacing.
[docs]: Revise introduction of vertical spacing context to avoid render
inference that the formatter will compute a vertical spacing appropriate
to the type size automagically--it will not.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62617>. Thanks to Dave Kemper for
the report.
---
ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
doc/groff.texi | 2 +-
man/roff.7.man | 3 +--
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7cfb27f3..cff4d8e0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2022-06-15 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
+
+ [docs]: Revise introduction of vertical spacing context to avoid
+ render inference that the formatter will compute a vertical
+ spacing appropriate to the type size automagically--it will not.
+
+ Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62617>. Thanks to Dave
+ Kemper for the report.
+
2022-06-15 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
[docs]: Revise discussion of end-of-sentence detection.
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 8c0c9177..70a004c5 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5633,7 +5633,7 @@ top to the bottom of the page.
@cindex spacing, vertical
@cindex vee
@dfn{Vertical spacing} is the distance between adjacent text baselines.
-In ordinary circumstances, this quantity is 120% of the type size. The
+Typographic tradition sets this quantity to 120% of the type size. The
initial drawing position is one unit of vertical spacing below the page
top. Typographers have a name for this unit:@: ``vee''.
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index a0f940a3..6d650d77 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -471,8 +471,7 @@ the top to the bottom of the page.
.I Vertical spacing
is the distance between adjacent text baselines.
.
-In ordinary circumstances,
-this quantity is 120% of the type size.
+Typographic tradition sets this quantity to 120% of the type size.
.
The initial vertical drawing position is one unit of vertical spacing
below the page top.
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