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[groff] 80/122: grotty(1): Lightly recast.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 80/122: grotty(1): Lightly recast.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:59:29 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 77d6ce8e969769a304572ee5c51632c38a71e54e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 9 22:02:04 2020 +1100

    grotty(1): Lightly recast.
    
    * Use language that better parallels recent usage in our man pages.
    * Also distinguish groff and troff, which is not too far down in the
      weeds for an output driver (postprocessor) man page.
    * Continue the slow replacement of "ASCII", which in hacker usage has
      come to mean "whatever I personally expected that glyph to look like"
      rather than any careful consideration of the contents of character
      encoding standards.
---
 src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man b/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man
index 9da5de1..31a9b80 100644
--- a/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man
@@ -72,22 +72,21 @@ The GNU
 .I roff
 TTY
 (\[lq]Teletype\[rq])
-output driver translates the intermediate,
-device-independent output of
-.IR groff (@MAN1EXT@)
+output driver translates the output of
+.IR \%@g@troff (@MAN1EXT@)
 into a form suitable for typewriter-like devices,
 including terminal emulators.
 .
 Normally,
 .I grotty
 is invoked by
-.I groff
+.IR groff (@MAN1EXT@)
 when the latter is given one of the
 .BR \-Tascii ,
 .B \-Tlatin1
 or
 .B \-Tutf8
-options on ASCII-based systems,
+options on systems using ISO character encoding standards,
 or with
 .B \-Tcp1047
 or
@@ -101,9 +100,9 @@ or if
 .I file
 is \[lq]\-\[rq],
 .I grotty
-reads the standard input.
+reads the standard input stream.
 .
-Output is written to the standard output.
+Output is written to the standard output stream.
 .
 .
 .LP
@@ -398,7 +397,8 @@ Prepend directory
 .RI dir /dev name
 to the search path for font and device description files;
 .I name
-is the name of the device, usually
+describes the output device's character encoding,
+one of
 .BR ascii ,
 .BR latin1 ,
 .BR utf8 ,



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