Re: Minor typos in groff_font(5) man page

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Jim,

Jim Avera wrote on Wed, May 16, 2018 at 07:26:21PM -0700:

> Some gobble got into the groff_font(5) man page.
> Unsensible bits are hightlighted:
> 
> "The depth subfield gives the depth of the glyph, that is, the
> distance *below the **lowest point below* the baseline
> to which the glyph extends (downwards is positive);
> if a glyph *does not extend below above* the baseline,
> it should be..."

Fixed with the commit below, thanks for spotting it.

> Betcha nobody reads that very often.

Betcha if they wanted to understand it, they'd have to.  ;)

Yours,
  Ingo



schwarze pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 3303e2ab1310f84a31b237c53e6adcb488008aca
Author: Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu May 17 17:17:50 2018 +0200

    trivial wording fix
    
    broken wording reported by Jim dot Avera at gmail dot com on bug-groff@
---
 man/groff_font.5.man | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/groff_font.5.man b/man/groff_font.5.man
index 71badf1..5e01441 100644
--- a/man/groff_font.5.man
+++ b/man/groff_font.5.man
@@ -612,9 +612,8 @@ given a zero height, rather than a negative height.
 The
 .I depth
 subfield gives the depth of the glyph, that is, the distance
-below the lowest point below the baseline to which the
-glyph extends (downwards is positive);
-if a glyph does not extend below above the baseline, it should be
+below the baseline to which the glyph extends (downwards is positive);
+if a glyph does not extend below the baseline, it should be
 given a zero depth, rather than a negative depth.
 .
 The