From d2cac6993e1e78ea83b1ea63d145ea4de19f02f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lprv <100177227+lprv@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 18:18:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [lex] Avoid "shall" when not stating a direct requirement

---
 source/lex.tex | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/lex.tex b/source/lex.tex
index 8005b33374..c071790533 100644
--- a/source/lex.tex
+++ b/source/lex.tex
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 zero or more whitespace characters other than new-line followed by
 a new-line character is deleted, splicing
 physical source lines to form \defnx{logical source lines}{source line!logical}. Only the last
-backslash on any physical source line shall be eligible for being part
+backslash on any physical source line is eligible for being part
 of such a splice.
 \begin{note}
 Line splicing can form
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 \end{note}
 A source file that is not empty and that (after splicing)
 does not end in a new-line character
-shall be processed as if an additional new-line character were appended
+is processed as if an additional new-line character were appended
 to the file.
 
 \item The source file is decomposed into preprocessing
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
 No other element of the translation character set
 is encoded with a code unit of value \tcode{0}.
 The code unit value of each decimal digit character after the digit \tcode{0} (\ucode{0030})
-shall be one greater than the value of the previous.
+is one greater than the value of the previous.
 The ordinary and wide literal encodings are otherwise
 \impldef{ordinary and wide literal encodings}.
 \indextext{UTF-8}%
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@
 token shall be a raw string literal. Between the initial and final
 double quote characters of the raw string, any transformations performed in phase
 2 (line splicing) are reverted; this reversion
-shall apply before any \grammarterm{d-char}, \grammarterm{r-char}, or delimiting
+is applied before any \grammarterm{d-char}, \grammarterm{r-char}, or delimiting
 parenthesis is identified. The raw string literal is defined as the shortest sequence
 of characters that matches the raw-string pattern
 \begin{ncbnf}