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groff_man.man: Some formatting changes in the manual


From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Subject: groff_man.man: Some formatting changes in the manual
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:20:57 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

                           Groff Bug Report

GROFF VERSION: 1.22.2
'current-groff' from 12th October 2013

MACHINE: laptop i586

OS: Linux 3.2.46-1-rt67-1 (Debian)

COMPILER: gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2

INPUT FILES:

.../groff-current/tmac/groff_man.man

DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR OR DEFECTS IN (INPUT) SOURCE:

  Changes:

  - changed to \- if it means a minus

  - changed to \- if it means an option

  A full stop, that starts or ends a string, protected with \&

  Paragraph, that has long words, only left adjusted (could also apply
to the whole file)

###

  Patch:

--- groff_man.man       2013-11-14 17:02:35.000000000 +0000
+++ groff_man.man.new   2013-11-14 17:23:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Footers for even and odd pages are forma
 Set distance of the footer relative to the bottom of the page if
 negative or relative to the top if positive.
 .
-The default is -0.5i.
+The default is \-0.5i.
 .
 .TP
 .BI \-rHY= flags
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ default line length,
 .B man
 default initialization to 78n prevails),
 whereas,
-the `-rLL=65n' option, or an equivalent `.nr\ LL\ 65n'
+the `\-rLL=65n' option, or an equivalent `.nr\ LL\ 65n'
 request preceding the use of the `TH' macro,
 .I does
 set a line length of 65n.
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ which must take on a value between 1 and
 .
 The value
 .I section
-may also have a string appended, e.g. `.pm', to indicate a specific
+may also have a string appended, e.g.\& `.pm', to indicate a specific
 subsection of the
 .IR \%man\~pages .
 Both
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ For HTML output, headers and footers are
 .
 .IP
 Additionally, this macro starts a new page; the new line number is\~1
-again (except if the `-rC1' option is given on the command line) --
+again (except if the `\-rC1' option is given on the command line) --
 this feature is intended only for formatting multiple
 .IR \%man\~pages ;
 a single
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ macro is the macro used for the explanat
 .B .TQ
 The
 .B TQ
-macro sets up header continuation for a .TP macro.
+macro sets up header continuation for a \&.TP macro.
 .
 With it, you can stack up any number of labels (such as in a
 glossary, or list of commands) before beginning the indented
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ Local changes and customizations should
 .
 .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
 .
+.ad l
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .
 .PP
@@ -1135,7 +1136,7 @@ Local changes and customizations should
 This manual page was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux
 system by
 .MT address@hidden
-Susan G. Kleinmann
+Susan G.\& Kleinmann
 .ME .
 .
 It was corrected and updated by
@@ -1145,7 +1146,7 @@ Werner Lemberg
 .
 The extension macros were documented (and partly designed) by
 .MT address@hidden
-Eric S. Raymond
+Eric S.\& Raymond
 .ME ;
 he also wrote the portability advice.
 .



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