[groff] 11/13: doc/groff.texi (Requests and Macros): Generalize.

[G. Branden Robinson]

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commit a130c718d19047bc2ac3b27234466516273e44a1
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Dec 4 14:31:40 2020 +1100

    doc/groff.texi (Requests and Macros): Generalize.
    
    Remove "mutually" qualifier; a macro can also be self-recursive.  It
    should be okay to permit the imaginative reader to infer support for
    mutually recursive macros.
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 doc/groff.texi | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 80a4716..5fc967b 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -4846,10 +4846,10 @@ the body of a macro definition is not (completely) 
interpreted, but
 stored instead (@pxref{Copy Mode}).  While a macro is being defined,
 requests are not interpreted and macros not interpolated, whereas some
 commonly used escape sequences @emph{are} interpolated.  @code{roff}
-systems also support mutually recursive macros---as long as you have a
-way to break the recursion (@pxref{Conditionals and Loops}).  For
-maintainable @code{roff} documents, arrange your macro definitions so
-that they are most easily understood when read from beginning to end.
+systems also support recursive macros---as long as you have a way to
+break the recursion (@pxref{Conditionals and Loops}).  For maintainable
+@code{roff} documents, arrange your macro definitions so that they are
+most easily understood when read from beginning to end.
 
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