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[groff] 01/21: NEWS: Fix content and style nits.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 01/21: NEWS: Fix content and style nits.
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:18:39 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 888464a15288e860e45af52263160aa9a6657597
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 17 16:55:48 2022 -0500

    NEWS: Fix content and style nits.
    
    * Use plan9port's proper name.
    * Improve modifier placement.
---
 NEWS | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 288901551..43463ccee 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -212,19 +212,19 @@ o The an (man) macro package supports a new macro, `MR`, 
intended for
   users.
 
   Inclusion of the `MR` macro was prompted by its introduction to
-  plan9port's troff in August 2020.  Its purpose is to ameliorate
-  several long-standing problems with man page cross references: (1) the
-  package's lack of inherent hyperlink support for them; (2)
-  false-positive identification of strings resembling man page cross
-  references (as can happen with "exit(1)", "while(1)", "sleep(5)",
-  "time(0)" and others) by terminal emulators and other programs; (3)
-  the unwanted intrusion of hyphens into man page titles, which
-  frustrates copy-and-paste operations (this problem has always been
-  avoidable through use of the \% escape sequence, but cross references
-  are frequent in man pages and some page authors are inexpert *roff
-  users); and (4) deep divisions in man page maintenance communities
-  over which typeface should be used to set the man page title (italics,
-  roman, or bold).
+  Plan 9 from User Space's troff in August 2020.  Its purpose is to
+  ameliorate several long-standing problems with man page cross
+  references: (1) the package's lack of inherent hyperlink support for
+  them; (2) false-positive identification of strings resembling man page
+  cross references (as can happen with "exit(1)", "while(1)",
+  "sleep(5)", "time(0)" and others) by terminal emulators and other
+  programs; (3) the unwanted intrusion of hyphens into man page titles,
+  which frustrates copy-and-paste operations (this problem has always
+  been avoidable through use of the \% escape sequence, but cross
+  references are frequent in man pages and some page authors are
+  inexpert *roff users); and (4) deep divisions in man page maintenance
+  communities over which typeface should be used to set the man page
+  title (italics, roman, or bold).
 
 o Part of the an (man) macro package has been renamed from `an-old.tmac`
   to `an.tmac`, replacing a file that sourced the `andoc.tmac` wrapper.
@@ -485,8 +485,8 @@ Miscellaneous
 
 o Because all generated forms of groff's Texinfo manual are now included
   in the distribution archive, building from that archive no longer
-  depends on GNU Texinfo or a TeX installation (the latter was only
-  required for the "doc" target, which had to be explicitly named).
+  depends on GNU Texinfo or a TeX installation (the latter was required
+  only for the "doc" target, which had to be explicitly named).
 
 o Building groff from its distribution archive no longer requires byacc
   (or GNU Bison) to be installed.



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