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bug #51046: groff.texi: remove repeated words

Submitter:  Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Submitted:  Wed 17 May 2017 12:59:43 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  Lint Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  bgarrigues
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.4
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Sat 22 Jan 2022 12:13:05 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Line breaks after sentences in filled paragraphs are not part of the Texinfo idiom.  Not only should the scope of issue reports be controlled, but the aforementioned proposed change is spurious.


commit 9ad5ad1106b552403f86fa7da4d68ee471a35eaf
Author: Bertrand Garrigues <bertrand.garrigues@laposte.net>
Date:   Tue Aug 29 18:03:18 2017 +0200

    groff.texi: remove repeated words.

    Fix bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51046.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Tue 29 Aug 2017 09:42:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Commited on master.

Bertrand Garrigues <bgarrigues>
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Wed 17 May 2017 12:59:43 AM UTC, original submission:  

From 2274015081d2ff1cf2bfc134ca56495b01a9b74b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 00:27:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] groff.texi: remove repeated words and untangle their
 paragraphs

  Untanglement: see man-pages(7), "Conventions for source file layout".

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
---
 doc/groff.texi | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 01c34103..2afd1f05 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -7754,11 +7754,11 @@ mode, and 0 in normal mode.
 @subsection Leaders
 @cindex leaders
 
-Sometimes it may may be desirable to use the @code{tc} request to fill a
+Sometimes it may be desirable to use the @code{tc} request to fill a
 particular tab stop with a given glyph (for example dots in a table of
-contents), but also normal tab stops on the rest of the line.  For this
-@code{gtroff} provides an alternate tab mechanism, called @dfn{leaders},
-which does just that.
+contents), but also normal tab stops on the rest of the line.
+For this @code{gtroff} provides an alternate tab mechanism, called
+@dfn{leaders}, which does just that.
 
 @cindex leader character
 A leader character (character code@tie{}1) behaves similarly to a tab
@@ -10634,7 +10634,7 @@ numeric expression with a default scale indicator of @samp{z}.
 @itemx \s'-@var{n}'
 @itemx \s+'@var{n}'
 @itemx \s-'@var{n}'
-Increase or or decrease the point size by @var{n}@tie{}scaled points;
+Increase or decrease the point size by @var{n}@tie{}scaled points;
 @var{n}@tie{}is a numeric expression (which may start with a minus sign)
 with a default scale indicator of @samp{z}.
 @end table
@@ -11583,10 +11583,11 @@ macro one level higher.  This is used to define a wrapper macro for
 @cindex \@key{RET}, when reading text for a macro
 When @code{gtroff} reads in the text for a macro, string, or diversion,
 it copies the text (including request lines, but excluding escapes) into
-an internal buffer.  Escapes are converted into an internal form, except
-for @code{\n}, @code{\$}, @code{\*}, @code{\\} and @code{\@key{RET}},
-which are evaluated and inserted into the text where the escape was
-located.  This is known as @dfn{copy-in} mode or @dfn{copy} mode.
+an internal buffer.
+Escapes are converted into an internal form, except for @code{\n},
+@code{\$}, @code{\*}, @code{\\} and @code{\@key{RET}}, which are evaluated
+and inserted into the text where the escape was located.
+This is known as @dfn{copy-in} mode or @dfn{copy} mode.
 
 What this means is that you can specify when these escapes are to be
 evaluated (either at copy-in time or at the time of use) by insulating
@@ -13564,9 +13565,10 @@ for @code{pso} also.
 @Defreq {mso, file}
 Identical to the @code{so} request except that @code{gtroff} searches
 for the specified @var{file} in the same directories as macro files for
-the the @option{-m} command line option.  If the file name to be
-included has the form @file{@var{name}.tmac} and it isn't found,
-@code{mso} tries to include @file{tmac.@var{name}} and vice versa.
+the @option{-m} command line option.
+If the file name to be included has the form @file{@var{name}.tmac} and it
+isn't found, @code{mso} tries to include @file{tmac.@var{name}} and vice
+versa.
 If the file does not exist, a warning of type @samp{file} is emitted.
 @xref{Debugging}, for information about warnings.
 @endDefreq
--
2.11.0


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    2022-01-22 gbranden CategoryNone Core
        Item GroupNone Lint
        Assigned toNone bgarrigues
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.4
    2017-08-29 bgarrigues Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

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