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[groff] 10/17: doc/groff.texi (Conditional Blocks): Clarify.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 10/17: doc/groff.texi (Conditional Blocks): Clarify.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:05:18 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit a6d8eec045a99e45e7b53d1200305bddf513d15c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Jun 25 09:30:32 2021 +1000

    doc/groff.texi (Conditional Blocks): Clarify.
    
    Make it explicit that good practice includes having multiple \} escapes
    on a control line.
---
 doc/groff.texi | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 8bcacda..b4f436f 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -11923,9 +11923,9 @@ The above behavior may challenge the intuition; it was 
implemented to
 retain compatibility with @acronym{AT&T} @code{troff}.  For clarity, it
 is idiomatic to end input lines with @code{\@{}, followed by
 @code{\@key{RET}} if desired to prevent the newline from being
-interpreted as a blank text line, and to have nothing more than a
-control character, spaces, and tabs preceding @code{\@}} on an input
-line.
+interpreted as a blank text line, and to precede @code{\@}} on an input
+line with nothing more than a control character, spaces, tabs, and other
+instances of itself.
 
 @Example
 .de DEBUG



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