[groff] 18/25: [docs]: Correct DVI EC/TC font overstatement.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit ea2bdbca10d4bbb05339baa9a82b788556278227
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 29 01:17:59 2022 +1100

    [docs]: Correct DVI EC/TC font overstatement.
    
    Maybe the claim was true in the past, but it isn't now--the EC/TC fonts
    offer only 2 more glyphs (predefined by groff)  than the CM fonts do.
    
    $ ./build/test-groff -ww -Tdvi -t -man ./build/man/groff_char.7 >| 
groff_char.7.dvi
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1474: warning: can't find special character 
'CR'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1492: warning: can't find special character 
'bs'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1507: warning: can't find special character 
'eu'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1508: warning: can't find special character 
'Eu'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1524: warning: can't find special character 
'%0'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1801: warning: can't find special character 
'HE'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1802: warning: can't find special character 
'DI'
    $ ./build/test-groff -ww -Tdvi -t -man -mec ./build/man/groff_char.7 >| 
groff_char.7.ec.dvi
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1474: warning: can't find special character 
'CR'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1492: warning: can't find special character 
'bs'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1507: warning: can't find special character 
'eu'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1801: warning: can't find special character 
'HE'
    troff:./build/man/groff_char.7:1802: warning: can't find special character 
'DI'
---
 doc/groff.texi                  |  4 ++--
 src/devices/grodvi/grodvi.1.man | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index a9e01234..177b674d 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5353,8 +5353,8 @@ Unicode supports characters from all other input 
encodings; the
 DVI output driver supports both the @w{Latin-2} and @w{Latin-9}
 encodings if the command-line option @option{-mec} is used as well.
 @footnote{The DVI output device defaults to using the Computer Modern
-(CM) fonts; @file{ec.tmac} loads the EC fonts instead, which have
-greater code point coverage.}
+(CM) fonts; @file{ec.tmac} loads the EC fonts instead, which provide
+Euro @samp{\[Eu]} and per mille @samp{\[%0]} glyphs.}
 
 @c ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/devices/grodvi/grodvi.1.man b/src/devices/grodvi/grodvi.1.man
index 2321c440..9afd8ed1 100644
--- a/src/devices/grodvi/grodvi.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grodvi/grodvi.1.man
@@ -465,13 +465,15 @@ Using the option
 .B \-mec
 (which loads the file
 .IR ec.tmac )
-provides the EC and TC fonts.
+selects the EC and TC fonts.
 .
-The design of the EC family is very similar to that of the CM fonts;
+The EC fonts are designed similarly to the CM fonts;
 additionally,
-they give a much better coverage of
-.I groff
-symbols.
+they provide Euro
+.B \[rs][Eu]
+and per mille
+.B \[rs][%0]
+glyphs.
 .
 .I ec.tmac
 must be called before any language-specific files;