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[groff] 06/40: ANNOUNCE: Sync groff description w/ its home page.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 06/40: ANNOUNCE: Sync groff description w/ its home page.
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:43:35 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit b93e1e0f04083e6b4bf30cf16dd60365b4676700
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 6 04:38:01 2022 -0600

    ANNOUNCE: Sync groff description w/ its home page.
---
 ANNOUNCE | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 45f9ea539..757f2d53c 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -8,18 +8,19 @@ alpha FTP site.  You may download the distribution archive 
from there.
 What is groff?
 ==============
 
-Groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input
+groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input
 files that include formatting commands to produce output in PostScript,
 PDF, HTML, or DVI formats or for display to a terminal.  Formatting
 commands can be low-level typesetting primitives or macros from a
-supplied set.  Users may also write their own macros.  All three may be
-combined.
-
-Present on most Unix systems owing to its long association with Unix
-manuals (including man pages), and notable for its use in the production
-of several best-selling software engineering texts, groff is capable of
-producing typographically sophisticated documents while consuming
-minimal system resources.
+supplied package.  Users may also write their own macros.  All three
+approaches can be combined.
+
+A reimplementation and extension of the typesetter from AT&T Unix, groff
+is present on most POSIX systems owing to its long association with Unix
+manuals (including man pages).  It and its predecessor are notable for
+their production of several best-selling software engineering texts.
+groff is capable of producing typographically sophisticated documents
+while consuming minimal system resources.
 
   https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
 



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