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Re: [Groff] groff.texinfo - section 5.21 - sentence difficult to underst


From: Deri James
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff.texinfo - section 5.21 - sentence difficult to understand
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:03:47 +0000
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2011 09:54:45 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >>    "The optional second argument to de changes this to a macro to
> >>    
> >>      ‘.end’."
> >> 
> >> For me this sentence is difficult to understand, although the
> >> meaning is obvious.
> > 
> > It was the same thing for me, I couldn't exactly understand this
> > until I saw examples in om.tmac.
> 
> Any improvement in the wording is highly welcomed.
> 
> 
>     Werner

Well, I'm welsh! How about:-

"If the optional second argument to de is present it is used as the macro 
closure command instead of `..'"

Cheers 

Deri


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