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commit 42ba74da04e9ac7de142afc39ddebdd2fa8fc7f9
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jun 21 08:13:05 2018 -0400
groff_man(7): Make clarifications.
* .SY/.YS: Turns off and restores hyphenation.
* Fix clunky language in mixed subjunctive and declarative moods.
Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man b/tmac/groff_man.7.man
index 8329120..2499ba6 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man
@@ -873,12 +873,14 @@ is set with a hanging indentation of the width of
.I command
plus a space.
.
+Hyphenation is turned off.
+.
.
.TP
.B .YS
End synopsis.
.
-Restore normal indentation.
+Restores indentation and hyphenation to previous values.
.
.
.PP
@@ -991,8 +993,8 @@ Some man pages use a brace-and-pipe notation such as
to indicate that one and only one of the \(lq|\(rq-separated items
within the braces must be input.
.
-If this braced construct were furthermore surrounded by brackets,
-then the meaning is that at most one of the items would be accepted.
+If this braced construct is furthermore surrounded by square brackets,
+it means that at most one of the items is accepted.
.
.
.IP
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