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-    Copyright (C) 1992-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+    Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
     Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
     are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -22,50 +22,50 @@ o The `hy' request has been extended.  Value 16 enables hyphenation before
 PDFPIC
 ------
 
-o PDFPIC has now been corrected, so the behaviour is the same whether you
-  use the postscript or pdf drivers. However, this means that any documents
-  which were written using the old behaviour will not be rendered correctly
-  if using the pdf driver with the new version.
+o PDFPIC has been corrected so the behaviour is the same whether you use the
+  postscript or pdf drivers.  However, this means that any documents which
+  were written using the old behaviour will not be rendered correctly if
+  using the pdf driver with the new version.
 
   The change would mean that documents which relied on the previous
   behaviour are likely to have a gap underneath the image which was not
   there before.  If you see this effect there are three ways you can restore
-  the previous 0behaviour:-
+  the previous behaviour:
 
   Add the line ".nr PDFPIC_NOSPACE 1" to the document before the first call
   to .PDFPIC.
 
   If it is just a single document which exhibits this behaviour you can run
-  groff adding "- rPDFPIC_NOSPACE=1" to the command-line.
+  groff adding "-rPDFPIC_NOSPACE=1" to the command line.
 
   If you have many documents which rely on the previous behaviour you can
   set an environment variable "export GROFF_PDFPIC_NOSPACE=1" which will
   restore the previous behaviour for all runs.
 
   Note that this change has no effect it you were using .PDFPIC with the
-  postscript driver, only if you used it with the pdf driver.
+  postscript driver--only if you used it with the pdf driver.
 
 
 Gropdf
 ------
 
-  o Type 1 font loading fixed to handle newer ghostscript versions.
+o Type 1 font loading is fixed to handle newer ghostscript versions.
 
-  o Handling of glyphs above position 255 improved to allow many more glyphs
-    to be used.
+o Handling of glyphs above position 255 is improved to allow many more
+  glyphs to be used.
 
-  o New macros .pdftransition and .pdfpause introduced to allow creation of
-    presentation slides. Partially backward compatible with present.tmac,
-    specifically the PAUSE, BLOCKS and BLOCKE commands. Supports all the
-    transition types introduced in PDF v1.5. (See gropdf man page)
+o New macros .pdftransition and .pdfpause are introduced to allow creation
+  of presentation slides.  Partially backward-compatible with present.tmac,
+  specifically the PAUSE, BLOCKS and BLOCKE commands.  Supports all the
+  transition types introduced in PDF v1.5 (see the gropdf man page).
 
 
 Miscellaneous
 -------------
 
-o New 'configure' option --with-compatibility-wrappers to control how groff
+o A new 'configure' option --with-compatibility-wrappers controls how groff
   compatibility wrappers for vendor-provided non-GNU macro sets are
-  installed (See: ./configure --help).
+  installed (see ./configure --help).
 
 o eqn2graph, grap2graph, and pic2graph now attempt to adapt to very old
   installed versions of the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick programs