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Re: seeming repetition in info manual


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: Re: seeming repetition in info manual
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:18:56 -0600

Hi Dave,

At 2023-02-21T18:07:12-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Certainly not a showstopper of any sort, but one oddity:
> doc/groff.texi documents the .sp request by saying "Space downward by
> @var{distance}.  With no argument, the drawing position is advanced
> downward by one vee."  This is followed by four other sentences, and
> then "If @var{distance} is not specified, @samp{1v} is assumed," which
> seems to only re-word the earlier sentence.  Are they saying something
> subtly different, or is one of them redundant?

The latter.  I've fixed this in my working copy.  Thanks!

Regards,
Branden

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