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[groff] 01/21: NEWS: Fix content and style nits.
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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 01/21: NEWS: Fix content and style nits. |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:18:39 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 888464a15288e860e45af52263160aa9a6657597
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 17 16:55:48 2022 -0500
NEWS: Fix content and style nits.
* Use plan9port's proper name.
* Improve modifier placement.
---
NEWS | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 288901551..43463ccee 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -212,19 +212,19 @@ o The an (man) macro package supports a new macro, `MR`,
intended for
users.
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).
+ Plan 9 from User Space'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.
@@ -485,8 +485,8 @@ 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 named).
+ depends on GNU Texinfo or a TeX installation (the latter was required
+ only 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.
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