[groff] 03/35: NEWS: Clarify wording.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit cad644b7a5943ae753d6903414dcac098cd86c3b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 12 17:38:16 2022 -0500

    NEWS: Clarify wording.
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 NEWS | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 64eb415c..ae23a480 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -189,19 +189,20 @@ o The an (man) macro package supports a new macro, `MR`, 
intended for
   `MR` and `TH`), permitting configuration by distributions, sites, and
   users.
 
-  The `MR` macro was prompted by its introduction to plan9port's troff
-  in August 2020.  Its purpose is to ameliorate several long-standing
-  problems with man page cross references: (1) the package's lack of
-  inherent hyperlink support for them; (2) false-positive identification
-  of strings resembling man page cross references (as can happen with
-  "exit(1)", "while(1)", "sleep(5)", "time(0)" and others) by terminal
-  emulators and other programs; (3) the unwanted intrusion of hyphens
-  into man page titles, which frustrates copy-and-paste operations (this
-  problem has always been avoidable through use of the \% escape
-  sequence, but cross references are frequent in man pages and some page
-  authors are inexpert *roff users); and (4) deep divisions in man page
-  maintenance communities over which typeface should be used to set the
-  man page title (italics, roman, or bold).
+  Inclusion of the `MR` macro was prompted by its introduction to
+  plan9port's troff in August 2020.  Its purpose is to ameliorate
+  several long-standing problems with man page cross references: (1) the
+  package's lack of inherent hyperlink support for them; (2)
+  false-positive identification of strings resembling man page cross
+  references (as can happen with "exit(1)", "while(1)", "sleep(5)",
+  "time(0)" and others) by terminal emulators and other programs; (3)
+  the unwanted intrusion of hyphens into man page titles, which
+  frustrates copy-and-paste operations (this problem has always been
+  avoidable through use of the \% escape sequence, but cross references
+  are frequent in man pages and some page authors are inexpert *roff
+  users); and (4) deep divisions in man page maintenance communities
+  over which typeface should be used to set the man page title (italics,
+  roman, or bold).
 
 o Part of the an (man) macro package has been renamed from `an-old.tmac`
   to `an.tmac`, replacing a file that sourced the `andoc.tmac` wrapper.
@@ -443,7 +444,7 @@ Miscellaneous
 o Because all generated forms of groff's Texinfo manual are now included
   in the distribution archive, building from that archive no longer
   depends on GNU Texinfo or a TeX installation (the latter was only
-  required for the "doc" target, which had to be explicitly given).
+  required for the "doc" target, which had to be explicitly named).
 
 o Building groff from its distribution archive no longer requires byacc
   (or GNU Bison) to be installed.