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diff --git a/man/curs_trace.3x b/man/curs_trace.3x
index ddae79112541..7f9d115e1369 100644
--- a/man/curs_trace.3x
+++ b/man/curs_trace.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2019-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 2019-2024,2025 Thomas E. Dickey *
.\" Copyright 2000-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: curs_trace.3x,v 1.50 2024/04/20 21:24:19 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_trace 3X 2024-04-20 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_trace.3x,v 1.55 2025/01/19 00:51:10 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_trace 3X 2025-01-18 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
.ie \n(.g \{\
.ds `` \(lq
.ds '' \(rq
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ If the file already exists, no tracing is done.
.bP
If tracing is not available, \fBcurses_trace\fP returns zero (0).
.SS "Trace Parameter"
-The trace parameter is formed by OR'ing
+The trace parameter is formed by logically \*(``or\*(''-ing
values from the list of \fBTRACE_\fIxxx\fR definitions in \fB<curses.h>\fR.
These include:
.TP 5
@@ -264,13 +264,15 @@ if \fBDEBUG\fP was defined when building the library.
.IP
The SVr4 tracing feature is undocumented.
.bP
-PDCurses provides \fBtraceon\fP and \fBtraceoff\fP,
+.I \%PDCurses
+provides \fBtraceon\fP and \fBtraceoff\fP,
which (like SVr4) are always available,
and enable tracing
to the \*(``trace\*('' file
only when a debug-library is built.
.IP
-PDCurses has a short description of these functions,
+.I \%PDCurses
+has a short description of these functions,
with a note that they are not present in X/Open Curses,
\fI\%ncurses\fP or NetBSD.
It does not mention SVr4,