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@c %**end of header
@copying
-This file documents WoMan: A program to browse Unix manual pages `W.O.
-(without) man'.
+This file documents WoMan: A program to browse Unix manual pages ``W.O.
+(without) man''.
Copyright @copyright{} 2001--2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ is important I will refer to them both ambiguously as @code{roff}.
@code{roff} markup consists of @dfn{requests} and @dfn{escape
sequences}. A request occupies a complete line and begins with either a
-period or a single forward quote. An escape sequences is embedded
+period or an apostrophe. An escape sequence is embedded
within the input text and begins (by default) with a backslash. The
original man macro package defines 20 new @code{roff} requests
implemented as macros, which were considered to be sufficient for