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commit 28669f719e75d0f9c70532301a947d9d17dd030b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Sep 7 20:53:58 2020 +1000
roff(7): Fix clarity and style issues.
* Correct an overbroad statement.
* Fix typos.
* Tighten wording.
---
man/roff.7.man | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index 235010e..5851912 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -67,11 +67,12 @@ The ancestry of
.I roff
is described in section \[lq]History\[rq] below.
.
-In this document, the term
-.I roff
-always refers to this general class of programs,
-not to the
+In this document,
+the term
.I roff
+generally refers to this class of programs,
+with the exception of a
+.IR roff (1)
command provided in early Unix systems.
.
In spite of its age,
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ five- and six-bit character encodings were still in
widespread usage,
and mixed-case alphabetics seen as a luxury.
.
.I RUNOFF
-introduced s syntax of inlining formatting directives amid document
+introduced a syntax of inlining formatting directives amid document
text,
by beginning a line with a period
(an unlikely occurrence in human-readable material)
@@ -247,10 +248,12 @@ to turn on fill mode got the name it retains to this day.
By 1971,
McIlroy's
.I runoff
-had been rewritten in DEC PDP-11 assembly language by Dennis Ritchie
+had been rewritten in DEC PDP-11 assembly language
+for the fledgling Unix operating system
+by Dennis Ritchie
and seen its name shortened to
.I roff
-(perhaps under the the influence of Ken Thompson),
+(perhaps under the influence of Ken Thompson),
but had added support for automatic hyphenation with
.B .hc
and
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@ dubbing it
(for \[lq]typesetter roff\[rq]).
.
Unfortunately,
-suriving documentation does not illustrate what requests were
+surviving documentation does not illustrate what requests were
implemented at this time for C/A/T support;
the
.IR troff (1) \" AT&T
@@ -452,8 +455,8 @@ for typesetting mathematics.
In the same year,
for Fifth Edition Unix,
Ossanna combined and reimplemented the programs in C,
-using preprocessor conditions of that language to generate both programs
-from a single source tree.
+using preprocessor conditions of that language to generate both from a
+single source tree.
.
.
.\" XXX GBR leaves off here
@@ -505,7 +508,7 @@ got a binary of its own called
.
All modern
.I troff
-implementations provide device-indepenent functionality.
+implementations provide device-independent functionality.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
@@ -1366,7 +1369,7 @@ are documented in great detail.
.
.TP
\[lq]History of Unix Manpages\[rq]
-A
+An
.UR http://\:manpages\:.bsd\:.lv/\:history\:.html
online article maintained by the mdocml project
.UE
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