diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 2e8211f89..a39a1fea9 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                info-gnu for releases,
                and CC groff and linux-man@vger.kernel.org for both. ]]
 
-groff 1.23 release candidate 2, 1.23.0.rc3, is now available from GNU's
+groff 1.23 release candidate 3, 1.23.0.rc3, is now available from GNU's
 alpha FTP site.  You may download the distribution archive from there.
 
   https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/groff/
diff --git a/tmac/an.tmac b/tmac/an.tmac
index d67db938e..917739199 100644
--- a/tmac/an.tmac
+++ b/tmac/an.tmac
@@ -462,9 +462,9 @@
 .  while (\\n[an-header-width] >= \\n[.lt]) \{\
 .    \" The page topic is too long; trim some bits out of the middle.
 .    length an*topic-length \\*[an*topic-string]
-.    \" roff division rounds integers toward zero.  Remove an additional
-.    \" character on each side of the midpoint to account for the
-.    \" ellipsis we add later.
+.    \" roff uses truncating division.  Remove an additional character
+.    \" on each side of the midpoint to account for the ellipsis we add
+.    \" later.
 .    nr an-mark1 (\\n[an*topic-length] / 2 - 2)
 .    nr an-mark2 (\\n[an*topic-length] / 2 + 2)
 .    ds an-prefix \\*[an*topic-string]\"