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groff, tbl.man: Some formatting changes in the manual


From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Subject: groff, tbl.man: Some formatting changes in the manual
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:13:16 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

                           Groff Bug Report

GROFF VERSION:
1.22.2 (current-groff from 17th October 2013)

MACHINE:
laptop (i586)

OS:
GNU/Linux 3.2.46-1-rt67-1; Debian 7.2 (wheezy)

COMPILER:
gcc 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)

INPUT FILES:

.../groff-current/src/preproc/tbl/tbl.man

COMMAND LINE:
groff -b -ww -mandoc -z

DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR OR FAULTY INPUT (SOURCE):

  Changes:

  A full stop (.), that begins or ends a string, protected with \&

  A comma (,) after a dash (pause) removed

  Space at end of lines

SUGGESTED FIX [optional]:

--- tbl.man     2013-01-07 08:54:28.000000000 +0000
+++ tbl.man.new 2013-11-21 19:29:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Same as box (GNU tbl only).
 .
 .TP
 .BI linesize( n )
-Set lines or rules (e.g. from
+Set lines or rules (e.g.\& from
 .BR box )
 in
 .IR n -point
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ or
 .BR R \~entries
 \[en] this can happen if the table format is changed with
 .B .T&
-\%\[en],
+\%\[en]
 center the widest
 .I number
 (of the data entered under the
@@ -483,14 +483,14 @@ Short form of
 .TP
 .BR m , M
 This is a GNU tbl extension.
-Either of these specifiers may be followed by a macro name 
+Either of these specifiers may be followed by a macro name
 (either one or two characters long),
 or long name in parentheses.
 A one-letter macro name must be separated by one or more blanks
 from whatever follows.
 The macro which name can be specified here
 must be defined before creating the table.
-It is called just before the table's cell text is output. 
+It is called just before the table's cell text is output.
 As implemented currently, this macro is only called if block input is used,
 that is, text between `T{' and `T}'.
 The macro should contain only simple
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ Note, however, that not all features of
 .B @address@hidden
 can be wrapped into a macro because
 .B @address@hidden
-sees the input earlier than 
+sees the input earlier than
 .BR @address@hidden .
 For example, number formatting with vertically aligned decimal points
 fails if those numbers are passed on as macro parameters because



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