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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 33/41: groff_char(7): Fix content and style nits. |
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Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:41:32 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 316df638f8ff65a64b8fc7ec145062d168d9d35b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 17 04:27:08 2022 +1100
groff_char(7): Fix content and style nits.
* Migrate terminology: "escape" -> "escape sequence".
* Say specifically what loads "composite.tmac".
* Depict correct glyph for | character (meaningful for devices like
"ps" that de-unify | and \[or]), so that a distinction can be seen.
---
man/groff_char.7.man | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index 4e5f4658..0c0cf2c8 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ as does
.
.
.P
-The special character escape for the apostrophe as a neutral single
-quote is typically needed only in technical content;
+The special character escape sequence for the apostrophe as a neutral
+single quote is typically needed only in technical content;
typing words like \[lq]can't\[rq] and \[lq]Anne's\[rq] in a natural way
will render correctly,
because in ordinary prose an apostrophe is typeset either as a closing
@@ -809,8 +809,8 @@ is the code point of the character,
a decimal number between 0 and\~255
without leading zeroes.
.
-This legacy numeric special character escape is used to map characters
-onto glyphs via the
+This legacy numeric special character escape sequence is used to map
+characters onto glyphs via the
.B trin
request in macro files loaded by
.MR grotty @MAN1EXT@ .
@@ -1036,7 +1036,8 @@ request designates a special character as combining.
The
.I composite.tmac
macro file,
-loaded automatically by default,
+loaded automatically by the default
+.IR troffrc ,
maps the following special characters to the combining characters shown
below.
.
@@ -1559,7 +1560,7 @@ _
\[st] \e[st] u220B such that
\[3d] \e[3d] u2234 therefore
\[tf] \e[tf] u2234 therefore
-\[or] | u007C bar
+| | u007C bar
\[or] \e[or] u007C bitwise or +
.TE
.
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