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