[bug #59251] fix an example in groff_tmac(5)

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #59251 (project groff):


commit db2bbd805439fcdf9a80addd331b3ef281150629
Author: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 12 16:03:51 2020 +0200

    adjust the text around the example changed in the previous commit

commit d5042f97eb2923bce6e4f9c5d127772d5cbc1c81
Author: ivan tkachenko <me@ratijas.tk>
Date:   Mon Oct 12 15:29:04 2020 +0300

    groff_tmac(5): Remove .tm prefix from example
    
    .tm request sends anything to stderr. I found it confusing to be used
    in these examples because:
     1. it further complicates things by introducing extra entity;
     2. it doesn't even work, since stderr won't be formatted with \f[I].
    
    This solution sacrifices line break before the arguments list. I found
    that single dot (.) line does not work without leading spaces in
    surrounding lines; and introducing .br request would be like swapping
    one extra complexity for another. After all, the implied-but-missing
    line break is not as noticable as the missing \f* formatting.
    
    Via: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?59251



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