Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached fix, which should appear in the next 'tar' release.
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From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 15:25:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix abrupt sentence in HTML
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Typo reported by Jackson Dougherty in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-05/msg00000.html
* doc/tar.texi: Don’t assume that tex and info are the only two
formats.
---
 doc/tar.texi | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index a70e8898..8cb150bf 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -1231,13 +1231,8 @@ jazz
 @end smallexample
 
 This example is just like the example we showed which did not use
-@option{--verbose}, except that @command{tar} generated the remaining
-@iftex
-lines (note the different font styles).
-@end iftex
-@ifinfo
+@option{--verbose}, except that @command{tar} generated three output
 lines.
-@end ifinfo
 
 In the rest of the examples in this chapter, we will frequently use
 @code{verbose} mode so we can show actions or @command{tar} responses that
-- 
2.35.1

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