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commit d19927eed63ac9c9696a308442b1a1b90f8b4109
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 14 11:48:46 2025 -0600
NEWS: Revise item.
Typesetter roff is out of scope for this item; narrow the discussion.
---
NEWS | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9da43f0fa..aec55bbf0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -379,9 +379,9 @@ Macro packages
changed the default line length when formatting on terminals from 78n
to 80n. The latter is a vastly more common device configuration, but
that line length had been avoided since the groff 1.18 release in
- July 2002 (prior to that, the line length was 65n/6.5i, as in Unix
- troff), for an undocumented reason. That reason appears to have been
- the interaction of bugs in GNU tbl(1) with an aspect of grotty(1)'s
+ July 2002 (prior to that, the line length was 65n, as in Unix nroff),
+ for an undocumented reason. That reason appears to have been the
+ interaction of bugs in GNU tbl(1) with an aspect of grotty(1)'s
design. Those bugs have been resolved. A man(1) program can still
instruct groff to format for any desired line length by setting the
`LL` register on {g,n,t}roff's command line.
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