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[groff] 04/23: groff(7): Drop unnecessary language.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 04/23: groff(7): Drop unnecessary language.
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 20:58:16 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit a9460ab332c7456f72ef300209bf7d89883b283c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue May 2 07:31:16 2023 -0500

    groff(7): Drop unnecessary language.
    
    It tried to be helpful, but risked the reader inferring too much, i.e.,
    can you _not_ test non-Boolean-valued registers with control flow
    requests?  (You can.)  The preceding sections "Numeric expressions" and
    "Conditional expressions" provide the necessary foundation.
---
 man/groff.7.man | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 891d852be..6375708e8 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -5494,12 +5494,7 @@ part of the register name.
 .
 Predefined registers whose identifiers start with a dot are read-only.
 .
-Many are Boolean-valued,
-interpolating a true or false value testable with
-.request .if ,
-.request .ie ,
-or
-.request .while .
+Many are Boolean-valued.
 .
 Some are string-valued,
 meaning that they interpolate text.



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