gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit c2ba2c653ae78887d7f7cce4ed9a730835fc0056
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 9 04:57:56 2026 -0500
afmtodit(1): Fix style nits.
* Favor active voice over passive.
* Favor present tense over future.
---
src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
index 5e504acfd..6c10152ed 100644
--- a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
+++ b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ option is used,
.I \%afmtodit
automatically generates an italic correction,
a left italic correction,
-and a subscript correction for each glyph
-(the significance of these is explained in
-.MR groff_font @MAN5EXT@ );
+and a subscript correction for each glyph\[em]\c
+.MR groff_font @MAN5EXT@
+explains the significance of these\[em]\c
they can be specified for individual glyphs by
adding to the
.I afm-file
@@ -272,16 +272,17 @@ fonts.
.
.
.P
-The
+Specify the
.B \-s
-option should be given if the font is \[lq]special\[rq],
+option if the font is \[lq]special\[rq],
meaning that
.I groff
should search it whenever a glyph is not found in the current font.
.
To enable this search,
+list
.I font-description-file
-can be listed as an argument to the
+as an argument to the
.B fonts
directive in the output device's
.I DESC
@@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ If the font is not special,
there is no need to do either,
since
.MR @g@troff @MAN1EXT@
-will automatically mount it when it is first used.
+automatically mounts it when it is first used.
.
.
.br
@@ -346,9 +347,9 @@ font.
.
.TP
.BI \-d\~ desc-file
-The device description file is
+Use
.I desc-file
-rather than the default
+as the device description file rather than the default
.IR DESC .
.
If not found in the current directory,
@@ -362,26 +363,26 @@ given with option
.
.TP
.BI \-e\~ enc-file
-The PostScript font should be reencoded to use the encoding described
+Re\[e ad]code the PostScript font to use the encoding described
in
.IR enc-file .
.
-The format of
-.I enc-file
-is described in
-.MR grops @MAN1EXT@ .
+.MR grops @MAN1EXT@
+describes the format of
+.I enc-file .
.
If not found in the current directory,
-the
+.I \%afmtodit
+searches the
.I devps
-subdirectory of the default font directory is searched.
+subdirectory of the default font directory.
.
.
.TP
.BI \-f\~ int-name
-The internal name of the
+Set the internal name of the
.I groff
-font is set to
+font to
.IR int-name .
.
.
@@ -587,7 +588,7 @@ is constructing a mapping from
.I groff
special character names to AGL names;
this can be a one-to-one or many-to-one mapping,
-but one-to-many will not work,
+but one-to-many does not work,
so
.I \%afmtodit
discards the excess mappings.
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