[bug #62617] doc/groff.texi: clarify relationship between type size and vertical spacing

[Dave]

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                 Summary: doc/groff.texi: clarify relationship between type
size and vertical spacing
                 Project: GNU troff
               Submitter: barx
               Submitted: Sat 11 Jun 2022 06:45:16 PM CDT
                Category: Core
                Severity: 2 - Minor
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Sat 11 Jun 2022 06:45:16 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
(This was briefly discussed in email
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-04/msg00001.html) but appears to have
fallen through the cracks.  That thread has more detail and discussion.)

This is a request to tweak wording that commit 52604fdd
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=52604fdd> modified to
say: "In ordinary circumstances, this quantity is 120% of the type size."

This is the _typographic_ convention.  But nothing in groff makes this 120%
"ordinary": the user must explicitly specify a .vs value that is 120% of her
.ps value in order to make this true.  One alternate way to phrase this could
be, "Traditionally, typesetters have set this quantity to 120% of the type
size."







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