gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit dbe4272652ee336bbc8ce3000b81e600300469d8
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 1 21:48:56 2025 -0600
doc/groff.texi.in: Fix style nits.
* Drop unnecessary word.
* Favor present tense over past or future.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index 7c54efffd..290b1ab39 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -15662,7 +15662,7 @@ Text processing continues at the new drawing position;
usually, vertical
motions should be in balanced pairs to avoid a confusing page layout.
@code{\v}
-will not spring a vertical position trap.
+does not spring a vertical position trap.
This can be useful;
for example,
consider a page bottom trap macro
@@ -16410,7 +16410,7 @@ is missing.
A trap is sprung only if it is @dfn{visible}, meaning that its location
is reachable on the page@footnote{A trap planted at @samp{20i} or
-@samp{-30i} will not be sprung on a page of length @samp{11i}.} and it
+@samp{-30i} cannot be sprung on a page of length @samp{11i}.} and it
is not hidden by another trap at the same location already planted
there.
@@ -16455,9 +16455,9 @@ when the @samp{hd} trap springs at vertical position
@samp{0},
invoking @samp{sp .5i}, we get the desired half-inch of top margin.
With the @samp{ft} trap, we space after the body text by one half-inch
@emph{minus one vee} to leave a half-inch bottom margin. The footer
-title, if anything taller than a baseline rule, thus ``encroaches'' into
+title, if taller than a baseline rule, thus ``encroaches'' into
the half-inch margin between the body text and the bottom margin, just
-as the header title symmetrically intruded into the half-inch of space
+as the header title symmetrically intrudes into the half-inch of space
between its own cap-height and that of the top of the body text.
To use these traps, copy the above (or load it from a file with the
@@ -20589,9 +20589,9 @@ Internals}.
In the somewhat pathological case where a diversion exists containing a
partially collected line and a partially collected line at the top-level
-diversion has never existed, @acronym{AT&T} @code{troff} will output a
+diversion has never existed, @acronym{AT&T} @code{troff} outputs a
partially collected but otherwise empty line (as if @samp{\c} were in
-the top-level diversion) at the end of input; GNU @code{troff} will not.
+the top-level diversion) at the end of input; GNU @code{troff} does not.
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