[groff] 07/31: roff(7): Clarify a minor historical point.

[G. Branden Robinson]

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commit 9c7b3cb381053e639ae995266efeffdcc59bd7d7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 22 05:48:05 2021 +1000

    roff(7): Clarify a minor historical point.
    
    One can argue about the semantics of "fonts" versus "styles" on
    teletypewriters, but one thing is clear: the C/A/T had a symbol font
    whereas the Teletype Model 37 did not (if you wanted the special
    non-ASCII character set, you had to embed SI and SO ASCII escapes in the
    input stream yourself[1]).  So recast a statement to be less arguable.
    
    [1] See the kbd(7) page from the First Edition Unix manual on page 13 of
        <https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/pdfs/man71.pdf>.
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 man/roff.7.man | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index 9eed538..518895a 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ phototypesetter,
 and with it came the necessity of expanding the capabilities of a
 .I roff
 system to cope with proportionally-spaced type,
-multiple point sizes and font styles.
+multiple point sizes,
+and a variety of fonts.
 .
 Ossanna wrote a parallel implementation of
 .I nroff