[groff] 12/14: [docs]: Simplify description of `\:`.

[G. Branden Robinson]

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commit 830ce89b1a44549fe76c81b05e8c043e1d6ae7ab
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 21 16:21:24 2024 -0500

    [docs]: Simplify description of `\:`.
    
    The proffered reason for GNU troff's behavior may not be correct; what
    might really be happening is that a (partial) word becomes eligible for
    automatic hyphenation again after experiencing a break.
    
    See threads
    <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-03/msg00208.html>
    and
    <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-04/msg00000.html>.
---
 doc/groff.texi.in    | 4 ++--
 man/groff_diff.7.man | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index c80ff3859..b3111009d 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -8636,8 +8636,8 @@ just prior to it; most likely this isn't what you want.
 @cindex breaking URLs (@code{\:})
 @code{\:} inserts a non-printing break point; that is, a word can break
 there, but the soft hyphen glyph (see below) is not written to the
-output if it does.  This escape sequence is an input word boundary, so
-the remainder of the word is subject to hyphenation as normal.
+output if it does.  The remainder of the word is subject to hyphenation
+as normal.
 
 You can combine @code{\:} and @code{\%} to control breaking of a file
 name or URL, or to permit hyphenation only after certain explicit
diff --git a/man/groff_diff.7.man b/man/groff_diff.7.man
index c1bccf641..ab722415e 100644
--- a/man/groff_diff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_diff.7.man
@@ -1311,8 +1311,7 @@ but the soft hyphen character does not mark the break 
point if it does
 (in contrast to
 .RB \[lq]\^ \[rs]% \[rq]).
 .
-This escape sequence is an input word boundary,
-so the remainder of the word is subject to hyphenation as normal.
+The remainder of the word is subject to hyphenation as normal.
 .
 .
 .TP