[groff] 10/17: pic(1): Tighten wording.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit b073d47926bece1e8e2e39e38b00f21f61d0ac49
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 3 01:37:29 2024 -0600

    pic(1): Tighten wording.
    
    ...buying a whole page in the collected "groff-man-pages.pdf".
---
 src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
index 9535ee20c..bde339b51 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
@@ -1294,8 +1294,9 @@ is a single token:
 no space is allowed between the apostrophe and the
 .RB \[lq] th \[rq].
 .
+Consider the following example.
+.
 .
-For example,
 .IP
 .EX
 for i = 1 to 4 do {
@@ -1324,17 +1325,16 @@ tokens.
 .I groff
 requests that don't produce formatted output may precede
 .BR .PS ,
-but no text should be formatted.
-.
-That restriction applies to the injection of text by macro packages,
+but format no text,
+not even any injected by a macro package,
 which may include a page number even on the first page,
 as
 .I mm
 does by default.
 .
-Writing a \[lq]raw\[rq]
+Consider writing a \[lq]raw\[rq]
 .I roff
-document that uses no macro package is an economical approach.
+document that uses no macro package.
 .
 .
 .P
@@ -1455,13 +1455,14 @@ for a list)
 are rejected even in \*[tx] mode.
 .
 .
-.LP
-The interpretation of
+.P
+Research Tenth Edition Unix
+.IR pic 's \" AT&T
 .B \%fillval
-is incompatible with the
-.I pic \" AT&T
-in Research Tenth Edition Unix,
-which interprets 0 as black and 1 as white.
+interprets
+0 as black and 1 as white,
+incompatibly with GNU
+.IR pic .
 .
 .
 .\" ====================================================================