Hi Branden, I have comments on two of the numerous changes of this commit.
> this material can then be resequenced > +by the > +.b pdfswitchtopage > +macro (for PDF output), > by a tool that processes the output format, > or physically moved > to the beginning of the printed document. Before this insertion, this was two verb phrases joined by an "and"; now it's written as a series of three items, but two are prepositional phrases and one is a verb phrase, which is not a grammatical series. > -Useful for forcing out footnotes, > -but other than > -that hardly ever used. > -Must be followed by a > +.\" Useful for forcing out footnotes, > +.\" but other than > +.\" that hardly ever used. I sympathize with wanting to save "page" space (and, more generally, striving for concision), but completeness and clarity ought to take priority, and I feel this deletion reduces those. A .bp or end of input are typically satisfactory ways to end a page or a document, so a macro that ends a page but can only precede one of those two things sounds nigh useless; the removed sentence was the only thing that motivated the macro's use. Conversely, users who find a footnote missing in their document will no longer be able to discover the macro that will restore it by searching the -me manual for the word "footnote." And even if they happen across .ep in the manual, without that sentence there's still little clue this is the solution they were looking for.
