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[groff] 09/23: [docs]: Tighten wording.
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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 09/23: [docs]: Tighten wording. |
Date: |
Sat, 6 May 2023 20:58:16 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu May 4 16:57:14 2023 -0500
[docs]: Tighten wording.
This recovers good page breaks in roff(7).
---
doc/groff.texi | 12 ++++++------
man/roff.7.man | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 99626b398..9f410b4b7 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5007,12 +5007,12 @@ Welcome to groff.
@cindex sentence space
@cindex space between sentences
@cindex French spacing
-GNU @code{troff} does this by flagging certain characters (normally
-@samp{!}, @samp{?}, and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence.
-When GNU @code{troff} encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence
-characters} at the end of an input line, or one of them is followed by
-two (unescaped) spaces on the same input line, it appends an inter-word
-space followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output.
+GNU @code{troff} flags certain characters (normally @samp{!}, @samp{?},
+and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence. When GNU @code{troff}
+encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence characters} at the end of
+an input line, or one of them is followed by two (unescaped) spaces on
+the same input line, it appends an inter-word space followed by an
+inter-sentence space in the output.
@Example
R. Harper subscribes to a maxim of P. T. Barnum.
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index 736afbc57..d53b743c7 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The exceptions separate words.
.P
A
.I roff
-formatter attempts to detect the boundaries between sentences,
+formatter attempts to detect boundaries between sentences,
and supplies additional inter-sentence space between them.
.
-It does this by flagging certain characters
+It flags certain characters
(normally
.RB \[lq] !\& \[rq],
.RB \[lq] ?\& \[rq],
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ at the end of an input line,
or one of them is followed by two (unescaped) spaces on the same input
line,
it appends an inter-word space
-followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output.
+followed by an inter-sentence space in the output.
.
The dummy character escape sequence
.B \[rs]&
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ In
the distinction between those two elements is not always obvious
(and a full discussion is beyond our scope).
.
-To roughly characterize,
+In brief,
\[lq]A\[rq] is a character when we consider it in the abstract:
to make it a glyph,
we must select a typeface with which to render it,
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