[bug #46319] errors in info pages

[Dave]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46319>

                 Summary: errors in info pages
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: barx
            Submitted on: Thu 29 Oct 2015 12:22:16 AM CDT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

A couple errors in groff's info pages are described below.  For each error,
I've supplied a command that shows the text where the error is, followed by a
short description of the problem with that segment.  These commands all work
against the latest version (commit a6690261058803fbb63af9f078ad5541d1beab0c)
of doc/groff.texi.

$ fgrep -A28 'item latin-1' doc/groff.texi

Note the latin-1 and latin-2 sections consistently use "latin-1" and "latin-2"
throughout their respective blocks, but the latin-5 section has elements
referring to itself as both "latin-2" and "latin9".

$ fgrep -A4 '{ds}, and @code{as}' doc/groff.texi

This block says "string diversion" where it seems to mean only "string." 
Also, the phrase "together with its variants" ought to be "together with their
variants," since most if not all of the cited requests have variants.

$ fgrep -A1 '(this is, using' doc/groff.texi

Since the caller needn't be a macro, it seems this should say "from the
caller" rather than "from the calling macro."

Also, the English idiom is "that is," not "this is."  This nonstandard phrase
also appears a few other times throughout the info manual.




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