hi. this reads fine to me and seems clearer, but a technical ok would be good too.

jmc

On 31 January 2025 17:37:42 GMT, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
>The following wording for tr -s
>is IMHO a little bit clearer,
>judging by the recent discusion on misc@
>
>	Jan
>
>
>--- tr.1.orig	Tue Jan 28 19:08:31 2025
>+++ tr.1	Tue Jan 28 19:12:08 2025
>@@ -80,15 +80,15 @@ The
> .Fl d
> option causes characters to be deleted from the input.
> .It Fl s
>-The
>+After all deletion and translation is completed,
>+the
> .Fl s
>-option squeezes multiple occurrences of the characters listed in the last
>-operand (either
>+option squeezes multiple consecutive occurrences of the characters
>+listed in the last operand (either
> .Ar string1
> or
> .Ar string2 )
>-in the input into a single instance of the character.
>-This occurs after all deletion and translation is completed.
>+into a single instance of the character.
> .El
> .Pp
> In the first synopsis form, the characters in
>