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[groff] 04/23: groff(7): Drop unnecessary language.
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G. Branden Robinson |
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[groff] 04/23: groff(7): Drop unnecessary language. |
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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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