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[groff] 07/22: groff(7): Say "no-break control character".
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G. Branden Robinson |
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[groff] 07/22: groff(7): Say "no-break control character". |
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Thu, 13 May 2021 05:08:35 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 04e63f00a0c1ef06b7cee2b68876e96fd4d80698
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed May 12 08:18:58 2021 +1000
groff(7): Say "no-break control character".
...instead of "non-breaking control character", for consistency with our
Texinfo manual, roff(7), and other usage in this page.
---
man/groff.7.man | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index c589a0d..06731ae 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -603,15 +603,14 @@ line of its own.
The apostrophe has two controlling tasks.
.
At the beginning of a line and in the conditional requests it is the
-non-breaking control character.
+no-break control character.
.
That means that it introduces a request like the dot, but with the
additional property that this request doesn't cause a linebreak.
.
-By using the
+The no-break control character can be changed with the
.request .c2
-request, the non-break control character can be set to a different
-character.
+request.
.
.IP
As a second task, it is the most commonly used argument separator in
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