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@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The exceptions separate words.
.P
A
.I roff
-formatter attempts to detect the boundaries between sentences,
+formatter attempts to detect boundaries between sentences,
and supplies additional inter-sentence space between them.
.
-It does this by flagging certain characters
+It flags certain characters
(normally
.RB \[lq] !\& \[rq],
.RB \[lq] ?\& \[rq],
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ at the end of an input line,
or one of them is followed by two (unescaped) spaces on the same input
line,
it appends an inter-word space
-followed by an inter-sentence space in the formatted output.
+followed by an inter-sentence space in the output.
.
The dummy character escape sequence
.B \[rs]&
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ In
the distinction between those two elements is not always obvious
(and a full discussion is beyond our scope).
.
-To roughly characterize,
+In brief,
\[lq]A\[rq] is a character when we consider it in the abstract:
to make it a glyph,
we must select a typeface with which to render it,