[groff] 07/17: groff_char(7): Apply terminological discipline.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit e1ce2c6f8966abc1a8fa830ddd9795cb184a06d9
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 8 01:34:49 2021 +1000

    groff_char(7): Apply terminological discipline.
    
    "escape" -> "escape sequence"
    "postprocessor" -> "output driver"
---
 man/groff_char.7.man | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index c27dd4e..27e549f 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ As in other respects,
 .I groff
 has removed historical
 .I roff
-limitations on the lengths of special character escapes,
+limitations on the lengths of special character escape sequences,
 but recognizes and retains compatibility with the historical names.
 .
 .I groff
 expands the lexicon of glyphs available by name and permits users to
-define their own special character escapes with the
+define their own special character escape sequences with the
 .B .char
 request.
 .
@@ -303,8 +303,8 @@ with their typical keycap engravings,
 their glyph mappings and semantics in
 .I roff
 systems,
-and the escapes producing the Unicode basic Latin character they
-replace.
+and the escape sequences producing the Unicode basic Latin character
+they replace.
 .
 The first,
 the neutral double quote,
@@ -320,14 +320,15 @@ the user to master the quoting rules that AT&T
 required in that context.
 .
 Furthermore,
-not all of the special character escapes are portable to AT&T
+not all of the special character escape sequences are portable to AT&T
 .I troff
 and all of its descendants;
 these
 .I groff
 extensions are presented using its special character escape form
 .BR \[rs][] ,
-whereas portable special character escapes are shown in the traditional
+whereas portable special character escape sequences are shown in the
+traditional
 .B \[rs](
 form.
 .
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ this will
 .I not
 be the case on more-capable devices.
 .
-Review your document using as many different postprocessors as possible.
+Review your document using as many different output drivers as possible.
 .
 .\" XXX: move these to tty.tmac instead?
 .fchar \[u02C6] ^
@@ -427,8 +428,8 @@ single quotation mark or as a neutral single quote,
 depending on the capabilities of the output device.
 .
 By contrast,
-special character escapes should be used for quotation marks unless
-portability to limited or historical
+special character escape sequences should be used for quotation marks
+unless portability to limited or historical
 .I troff
 implementations is necessary;
 on those systems,
@@ -516,7 +517,7 @@ encodes the no-break space.
 .
 On input it is mapped to
 .BR \[rs]\[ti] ,
-the adjustable non-breaking space escape.
+the adjustable non-breaking space escape sequence.
 .
 .
 .TP
@@ -525,7 +526,7 @@ encodes the soft hyphen character.
 .
 On input it is mapped to
 .BR \[rs]% ,
-the hyphenation control escape.
+the hyphenation control escape sequence.
 .
 .
 .P
@@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ Code points and combining properties are determined by 
character
 encoding standards,
 whereas glyph names originated in AT&T
 .I troff \" AT&T
-special character escapes.
+special character escape sequences.
 .
 Glyph names are not limited to alphanumeric characters;
 any of the printable characters from the Unicode basic Latin repertoire
@@ -706,7 +707,7 @@ see
 .RI [ n\c
 .RI [ n ]]\c
 .B ]
-is a Unicode numeric special character escape.
+is a Unicode numeric special character escape sequence.
 .
 With this form,
 any Unicode point can be indicated using four to six hexadecimal digits,
@@ -756,7 +757,7 @@ on ISO Latin-1 systems.)
 .I combining-component\c
 .RB ].\|.\|. ]
 constructs a composite glyph from Unicode numeric special character
-escapes.
+escape sequences.
 .
 The code points of the base glyph and the combining components are each
 expressed in hexadecimal,
@@ -897,7 +898,7 @@ the
 .B \[rs][ba]
 and
 .B \[rs][or]
-escapes may render differently.
+escape sequences may render differently.
 .
 See subsection \[lq]Mathematical symbols\[rq] below for special variants
 of the plus,
@@ -994,7 +995,7 @@ _
 .
 All of these glyphs can be composed using combining glyph names as
 described in subsection \[lq]Special character escape forms\[rq] above;
-the names below can be thought of convenient short aliases.
+the names below can be thought of as convenient short aliases.
 .
 .TS
 l l l lx.
@@ -1226,7 +1227,7 @@ and
 .B \[rs](rf
 which provide the floor operator.
 .
-Some output postprocessors,
+Some output drivers,
 such as
 .IR grodvi (@MAN1EXT@),
 don't unify such glyphs.