From 34f2aa3e38bf00798f2584f78041412b4225a8e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 16:57:14 -0500
Subject: [docs]: Tighten wording.

This recovers good page breaks in roff(7).
---
 doc/groff.texi | 12 ++++++------
 man/roff.7.man |  8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 99626b398..9f410b4b7 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5007,12 +5007,12 @@ Welcome to groff.
 @cindex sentence space
 @cindex space between sentences
 @cindex French spacing
-GNU @code{troff} does this by flagging certain characters (normally
-@samp{!}, @samp{?}, and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence.
-When GNU @code{troff} encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence
-characters} 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.
+GNU @code{troff} flags certain characters (normally @samp{!}, @samp{?},
+and @samp{.}) as potentially ending a sentence.  When GNU @code{troff}
+encounters one of these @dfn{end-of-sentence characters} 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 output.
 
 @Example
 R. Harper subscribes to a maxim of P. T. Barnum.
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index 736afbc57..d53b743c7 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -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,
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