[PATCH] minor fixes to Texinfo manual
Dave Kemper <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 17:48:46 -0500
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Hi groff developer(s),
I normally put documentation patches in a savannah ticket, since
they're usually not of interest to the general groff community, but
the changes proposed here are minor, and having a ticket triggers an
update to ChangeLog, which this change doesn't otherwise warrant. So
I'm choosing to submit this patch to this list as the lowest-overhead
solution.
Changes included in the attached patch are:
doc/groff.texi.in: Fix style nits.
* Add commas before "and"s introducing independent clauses where
the "and" might otherwise be temporarily misread as part of a
compound predicate.
* Use parentheses rather than dashes to set off a parenthetical
after an item in a series: the dashes require omitting a comma,
making it harder to parse the construction as a series.
* Parallelize a series.
* Fix a typo.
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