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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 20/50: [docs]: Fix style nit. |
Date: |
Sat, 21 May 2022 12:17:25 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 6c45a5e9153cd22204a41cc2f3df35f26d71ea5e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue May 17 18:31:19 2022 -0500
[docs]: Fix style nit.
Tighten wording and drop the term "parsing" in favor of
"interpretation"; GNU troff doesn't strongly dichotomize lexical
analysis and parsing as was traditionally done with lex and yacc, for
instance, and "parsing" is a more technical term that we don't require.
---
doc/groff.texi | 4 ++--
man/groff.7.man | 7 +++----
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 7085f340..2c1630af 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -6117,8 +6117,8 @@ Invalid input characters are a subset of control
characters (from the
sets ``C0 Controls'' and ``C1 Controls'' as Unicode describes them).
When GNU @code{troff} encounters one in an identifier, it produces a
warning in category @samp{input} (@pxref{Debugging}). They are removed
-during parsing; an identifier @samp{foo}, followed by an invalid
-character, followed by @samp{bar}, is interpreted as @samp{foobar}.
+during intepretation; an identifier @samp{foo}, followed by an invalid
+character and then @samp{bar} is processed as @samp{foobar}.
On a machine using the ISO 646, 8859, or 10646 character encodings,
invalid input characters are @code{0x00}, @code{0x08}, @code{0x0B},
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 49122213..77ab21ce 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -4473,13 +4473,12 @@ is necessary as a continuation byte in a UTF-8
sequence.)
.
.
.IP
-Invalid characters are removed during parsing;
+Invalid characters are removed during interpretation;
an identifier
.RB \[lq] foo \[rq],
-followed by an invalid character,
-followed by
+followed by an invalid character and then
.RB \[lq] bar \[rq]
-is interpreted as
+is processed as
.RB \[lq] foobar \[rq] .
.
.
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