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[groff] 02/05: groff_man*(7): Fine-tune terminology.
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G. Branden Robinson |
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[groff] 02/05: groff_man*(7): Fine-tune terminology. |
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Fri, 7 May 2021 22:27:40 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 8ff8fddbf7971935a918911ea9d658936cb800a0
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat May 8 11:41:36 2021 +1000
groff_man*(7): Fine-tune terminology.
Say man page "librarian" instead of "formatter"; man(1) doesn't really
do the formatting--it locates pages and sends them to a *roff program
for formatting. Also, we already refer to troff as the "formatter" in
our documentation.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index acd2c80..e93c439 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ When a preprocessor like
or
.I \%@g@eqn
is needed,
-a hint can be given to the man page formatter by making the first line
+a hint can be given to the man page librarian by making the first line
of a man page look like this:
.
.
@@ -3460,7 +3460,7 @@ are preprocessors used with man pages.
.
.PP
.IR man (1)
-describes the man page formatter on your system.
+describes the man page librarian on your system.
.
.
.PP
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