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[groff] 13/25: NEWS: Clarify items.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 13/25: NEWS: Clarify items.
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 01:02:56 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 776ad42f7817771ca94a4138b17d6da45051b0ad
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 3 13:56:09 2023 -0500

    NEWS: Clarify items.
---
 NEWS | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d8fb37954..8bc2081ed 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@ o Hyperlink support is now enabled by default on non-HTML 
devices that
   "man.local" file.
 
 o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now support a `BP` register
-  to configure the ("base") paragraph indentation amount; that is the
-  amount used by man(7) for paragraphs not within an `RS`/`RE` relative
-  inset, and in mdoc(7) for all paragraphs.  Formerly, the `IN` register
+  to configure the ("base") paragraph inset amount; that is the amount
+  used by man(7) for paragraphs not within an `RS`/`RE` relative inset,
+  and in mdoc(7) for all paragraphs.  Formerly, the `IN` register
   configured this amount with other indentation and inset amount
-  parameters used by man(7).  (In mdoc(7), it had no other purpose.)
-  The base paragraph indentation default is now 5n, corresponding to
-  that used by historical man(7) and mdoc(7) implementations going back
-  to Unix Version 7 and 4.3BSD-Reno, respectively.
+  parameters used by man(7).  (In mdoc(7), it had no other purpose.) The
+  base paragraph indentation default is now 5n, corresponding to that
+  used by historical man(7) and mdoc(7) implementations going back to
+  Unix Version 7 and 4.3BSD-Reno, respectively.
 
 o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now support a `PO` register
   to configure the page offset used by the formatter.
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ o The an (man) macro package now supports a `TS` register 
to configure
 
 o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now use slightly different
   vertical margins when formatting for typesetters, to align more
-  closely with the traditional ones.  Per man(7) in the AT&T Unix System
-  III manual (June 1980), the text area was 6.5 by 10 inches.  When
-  formatting for terminals with continuous rendering disabled (by
-  default, it is enabled), the page footer now sets 1 line higher than
-  before.
+  closely with the traditional implementations of these packages.  Per
+  man(7) in the AT&T Unix System III manual (June 1980), the text area
+  was 6.5 by 10 inches.  When formatting for terminals with continuous
+  rendering disabled (by default, it is enabled), the page footer now
+  sets 1 line higher than before.
 
 o The new macro file "koi8-r.tmac" supports the KOI8-R character
   encoding, which supports the new Russian locale for groff.



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