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index 07fe520..462baeb 100644
--- a/contrib/groff/man/groff_font.man
+++ b/contrib/groff/man/groff_font.man
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.ig
-Copyright (C) 1989-1995, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1989-1995, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -105,20 +105,13 @@ The physical vertical dimension of the output medium in machine units.
.
This isn't used by
.B troff
-itself; currently, only
-.B grops
-uses it.
+itself but by output devices.
.
-.TP
-.BI paperwidth\ n
-The physical horizontal dimension of the output medium in machine units.
-.
-This isn't used by
-.BR troff .
+Deprecated.
.
-Currently, only the
-.B grolbp
-output device uses it.
+Use
+.B papersize
+instead.
.
.TP
.BI papersize\ string
@@ -167,6 +160,19 @@ More than one argument can be specified;
.B groff
scans from left to right and uses the first valid paper specification.
.
+.TP
+.BI paperwidth\ n
+The physical horizontal dimension of the output medium in machine units.
+.
+Deprecated.
+.
+Use
+.B papersize
+instead.
+.
+This isn't used by
+.BR troff
+itself but by output devices.
.
.TP
.B pass_filenames
@@ -286,10 +292,10 @@ and
.B sizes
lines are compulsory.
.
-Other commands are ignored by
+Not all commands in the DESC file are used by
.B troff
-but may be used by postprocessors to store arbitrary information
-about the device in the DESC file.
+itself; some of the keywords (or even additional ones) are used by
+postprocessors to store arbitrary information about the device.
.
.LP
Here a list of obsolete keywords which are recognized by
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