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[groff] 30/49: doc/groff.texi: Fix correctness and style nits.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 30/49: doc/groff.texi: Fix correctness and style nits.
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:02:58 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit a9c00a58e08fd228fc238a8a93d6c373cb905b0b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 23 12:39:59 2022 -0500

    doc/groff.texi: Fix correctness and style nits.
    
    * Not all escape sequences interpreted in copy mode perform
      interpolations.  \" and \# are exceptions, for instance.
    * It is macro _calls_ that can recurse, not really macros themselves.
---
 doc/groff.texi | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index e71b40467..ebf30d6a4 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5309,9 +5309,9 @@ perhaps less obviously, we could also have defined them 
@emph{after}
 the body of a macro definition is not (completely) interpreted, but
 stored instead (@pxref{Copy Mode}).  While a macro is being defined (or
 appended to), requests are not interpreted and macros not interpolated,
-whereas some commonly used escape sequences @emph{are} interpolated.
-@code{roff} systems also support recursive macros---as long as you have
-a way to break the recursion (@pxref{Conditionals and Loops}).
+whereas some commonly used escape sequences @emph{are} interpreted.
+@code{roff} systems also support recursive macro calls, as long as you
+have a way to break the recursion (@pxref{Conditionals and Loops}).
 Maintainable @code{roff} documents tend to arrange macro definitions to
 minimize forward references.
 



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