gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 8bcf759a8bc4371e2dd5f416473db22de10b4df3
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Apr 26 04:42:35 2025 -0500
NEWS: Correct and clarify entries.
---
NEWS | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 013e77337..4b95e005d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ troff
that `mso` is itself a groff extension), consider the following.
.\" Load the ms package, whatever it might be named.
- .msoquiet s.tmac \" If file present, defines `LP` macro.
+ .msoquiet s.tmac\" If file present, defines `LP` macro.
.if !d LP .msoquiet tmac.s
* GNU troff no longer accepts nonpositive page lengths. Attempting to
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ troff
claim to be terminals), the formatter now reports warning diagnostics
regarding certain output problems using units of lines (vertically)
and character cells [ens] (horizontally) instead of inches (or the
- unit configured with the `warnscale` request) to describe the
- vertical drawing position where the problem occurred.
+ unit configured with the `warnscale` request) to describe the drawing
+ position where the problem occurred.
* The device-independent page description language produced by GNU
troff now reports unbreakable spaces (those produced with the `\~`
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ troff
AT&T and other troffs apply a hyphenation mode of 1 to the final
input line (and subsequent ones), rather than restoring the mode in
use before the `nh` request. Apart from overturning user
- expectations, for GNU troff "1" is not an appropriate value for its
+ expectations, for GNU troff "1" is not an appropriate mode for its
English hyphenation patterns. (For example, "alibi" would break as
"ali-bi" instead of "al-ibi" after this argumentless `hy`
invocation.) With updates to groff's localization files accompanying
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ troff
accept `p` and `s`.
* In compatibility mode, GNU troff now accepts delimiters that it
- rejects when not in compatbility mode--namely, ordinary characters
+ rejects when not in compatibility mode--namely, ordinary characters
that are meaningful in numeric expressions (which are often
delimited). This change improves compatibility with AT&T troff.
@@ -574,8 +574,8 @@ Macro packages
normal operation. Applications include customization of letterhead.
* The m (mm) macro package now supports a user-definable hook macro
- `RPX`, which if defined is called by `RP` to format the reference
- list caption string `Rp` instead of the default formatting.
+ `RPX`, which if defined is called by `RP` in lieu of the latter's
+ normal operation (formatting the reference list caption string `Rp`).
* The m (mm) macro package's `LI` macro now interprets its second
argument as a Boolean value indicating whether a space should
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