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[groff] 21/23: [ms]: Fix content and style nits in docs.
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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 21/23: [ms]: Fix content and style nits in docs. |
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Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:07:43 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 4aa8ca95d91ce048f74ff84ad21b9d59a2c3b424
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Sep 15 23:28:52 2022 -0500
[ms]: Fix content and style nits in docs.
* Fix missing comma.
* Drop extraneous word.
* Drop reference to "implementation note", existing only in ms.ms.
* Drop fragmentary "produces:" between example source and rendering.
* Tighten wording.
---
doc/groff.texi | 30 +++++++++++-------------------
doc/ms.ms | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index f42156439..18a9ec177 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -3062,9 +3062,9 @@ reaching an @code{AU}, @code{AB}, or heading or
paragraphing macro call.
@endDefmac
@Defmac {DA, [@Var{x} @dots{}], ms}
-Typeset the current date, or any arguments @var{x} in the center footer,
-and, if @code{RP} is also called, left-aligned after other document
-description information on the cover page.
+Typeset the current date, or any arguments @var{x}, in the center
+footer, and, if @code{RP} is also called, left-aligned after other
+document description information on the cover page.
@endDefmac
@Defmac {ND, [@Var{x} @dots{}], ms}
@@ -3306,9 +3306,9 @@ the previous @code{NH} call---that is, you ``skip a
depth'', as by
warning on the standard error stream.
Alternatively, you can give @code{NH} a first argument of@tie{}@code{S},
-followed by integers arguments to number the the heading depths
-explicitly. Further automatic numbering, if used, resumes using the
-specified indices as their predecessors.
+followed by integers to number the heading depths explicitly. Further
+automatic numbering, if used, resumes using the specified indices as
+their predecessors.
@c Although undocumented in Tuthill's 4.2BSD ms.diffs paper...
This feature is a Berkeley extension.
@endDefmac
@@ -3467,10 +3467,9 @@ instead of bold. This is a Tenth Edition Research Unix
extension.
@Defmac {BX, [@Var{text}], ms}
Typeset @var{text} and draw a box around it. On terminal devices,
-reverse video is used instead (see the implementation note below).
-If you want @var{text} to contain space, use unbreakable space or
-horizontal motion escape sequences (@code{\~}, @code{\SP}, @code{\^},
-@code{\|}, @code{\0} or @code{\h}).
+reverse video is used instead. If you want @var{text} to contain space,
+use unbreakable space or horizontal motion escape sequences (@code{\~},
+@code{\SP}, @code{\^}, @code{\|}, @code{\0} or @code{\h}).
@endDefmac
@Defmac {UL, [@Var{text} [@Var{post}]], ms}
@@ -3575,8 +3574,6 @@ guns
money
@endCartoucheExample
-produces:
-
@Example
A bulleted list:
@@ -3602,8 +3599,6 @@ guns
money
@endCartoucheExample
-produces:
-
@Example
A numbered list:
@@ -3631,8 +3626,6 @@ Gotta pay for those
lawyers and guns!
@endCartoucheExample
-produces:
-
@Example
A glossary-style list:
@@ -4042,9 +4035,8 @@ Footnotes can be safely used within keeps and displays,
but you should
avoid using automatically numbered footnotes within floating keeps. You
can place a second @code{\**} interpolation between a @code{\**} and its
corresponding @code{FS} call as long as each @code{FS} call occurs
-@emph{after} the corresponding @code{\**} and the occurrences of
-@code{FS} are in the same order as the corresponding occurrences of
-@code{\**}.
+@emph{after} the corresponding @code{\**} and occurrences of @code{FS}
+are in the same order as corresponding occurrences of @code{\**}.
Footnote text is formatted as paragraphs are, using analogous
parameters. The registers @code{FI}, @code{FPD}, @code{FPS}, and
diff --git a/doc/ms.ms b/doc/ms.ms
index 2eb48dbdf..b0e61efce 100644
--- a/doc/ms.ms
+++ b/doc/ms.ms
@@ -2756,9 +2756,9 @@ call occurs
.I after
the corresponding
.CW \[rs]**
-and the occurrences of
+and occurrences of
.CW .FS
-are in the same order as the corresponding occurrences of
+are in the same order as corresponding occurrences of
.CW \[rs]** .
.
.
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