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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-05-02 07:31:16 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-05-04 13:12:03 -0500
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groff(7): Drop unnecessary language.
It tried to be helpful, but risked the reader inferring too much, i.e., can you _not_ test non-Boolean-valued registers with control flow requests? (You can.) The preceding sections "Numeric expressions" and "Conditional expressions" provide the necessary foundation.
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diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 891d852be..6375708e8 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -5494,12 +5494,7 @@ part of the register name.
.
Predefined registers whose identifiers start with a dot are read-only.
.
-Many are Boolean-valued,
-interpolating a true or false value testable with
-.request .if ,
-.request .ie ,
-or
-.request .while .
+Many are Boolean-valued.
.
Some are string-valued,
meaning that they interpolate text.