[bug #51502] [PATCH] manuals: minor textual fixes

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

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                 Summary: [PATCH] manuals: minor textual fixes
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: bjarniig
            Submitted on: Tue 18 Jul 2017 11:59:50 PM UTC
                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:


>From 3906658a86a4ffcdc9bd14199b1a6fa8eddb8bd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:49:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] manuals: minor textual fixes

1) Correct spelling

2) Use the symbol 'in' for inch, not the English (American) specific '"'
(quotation mark)

3) Use '\e' to print '\', not '\\'.

4) Use '\-' to indicate an option, not '-'.

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <address@hidden>
---
 contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man |  2 +-
 contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man         |  8 ++++----
 contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man     |  2 +-
 src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp        |  2 +-
 src/devices/grolj4/lj4_font.5.man | 10 +++++-----
 src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom.1.man   |  2 +-
 src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man         |  2 +-
 src/roff/groff/groff.1.man        |  4 ++--
 tmac/groff_man.7.man              |  2 +-
 9 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
index 2441832e..c45c2040 100644
--- a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
+++ b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ In this temporary directory, the temporary files are
stored.
 Normally all
 .I groff
 output of this program is sent to
-.BR STDOUT R .
+.BR STDOUT .
 .
 With this option, that can be changed, such that the output is stored
 into a file named in the option argument
diff --git a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
index c10da9c8..1655721f 100644
--- a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ The license text is available in the internet at
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .
-This is a preprocesor for
+This is a preprocessor for
 .BR \%groff (@MAN1EXT@).
 .
 It allows to add
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ character for standard input.
 .
 As usual, the argument
 .B \-\-
-can be used in order to let all fowllowing arguments mean file names,
+can be used in order to let all following arguments mean file names,
 even if the names begin with a minus character
 .BR \- .
 .
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ All other arguments will be ignored by that.
 .
 These
 .I breaking
-options are heree
+options are here
 .
 .TP
 .B -h\~\fR|\fB\~--help
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ The printing towards
 .
 All error information goes to the real normal
 .IR "standard error" ,
-without other automatical storage.
+without other automatic storage.
 .
 .
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
index ceedbf05..41717eb6 100644
--- a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This file was written by Bernd Warken
<address@hidden>.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .
-This is a preprocesor for
+This is a preprocessor for
 .BR \%groff (@MAN1EXT@).
 .
 It allows to add the Chinese European-like language
diff --git a/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp b/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp
index aaa03886..0f9006ec 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ inline void lbp_printer::polygon(int hpos, int vpos, int
np, int *p)
   points = new int[np + 2];
   points[0] = hpos;
   points[1] = vpos;
-  // fprintf(stderr, "Poligon (%d,%d) ", points[0], points[1]);
+  // fprintf(stderr, "Polygon (%d,%d) ", points[0], points[1]);
   for (i = 0; i < np; i++)
     points[i + 2] = p[i];
   // for (i = 0; i < np; i++) fprintf(stderr, " %d ", p[i]);
diff --git a/src/devices/grolj4/lj4_font.5.man
b/src/devices/grolj4/lj4_font.5.man
index 05224baf..fe33f3ab 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolj4/lj4_font.5.man
+++ b/src/devices/grolj4/lj4_font.5.man
@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ Although HP PCL~5 LaserJet printers support an internal
resolution of
 7200 units per inch, they use a 16-bit signed integer for cursor
 positioning; if
 .B devlj4
-is to support U.S.\& ledger paper (11"~\(mu~17"), the maximum usable
-resolution is 32\|767~/~17, or 1927, units per inch, which rounds down
-to 1200 units per inch.
+is to support U.S.\& ledger paper (11~in~\(mu~17~in; in = inch),
+the maximum usable resolution is 32\|767~/~17, or 1927 units per inch,
+which rounds down to 1200 units per inch.
 .
-If the largest required paper size is less (e.g., 8.5"~\(mu~11" or
-A5), a greater resolution (and lesser unitwidth) can be specified.
+If the largest required paper size is less (e.g., 8.5~in~\(mu~11~in,
+or A5), a greater resolution (and lesser unitwidth) can be specified.
 .
 .
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom.1.man
b/src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom.1.man
index 90fef598..d732926b 100644
--- a/src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom.1.man
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ which uses
 .BR groff 's
 PostScript driver.
 .
-In either case, multiple runs of the source file are peformed in
+In either case, multiple runs of the source file are performed in
 order to satisfy any forward references in the document.
 .
 .
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
index 141a494b..c5d17513 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ the resulting (intermediate)
 file can be then converted to virtually any graphics format using the
 tools of the
 .B netpbm
-package .
+package.
 .
 .
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
index 84e70957..6d68ea31 100644
--- a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
+++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Werner Lemberg
 ..
 .
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
-.\" Definitons
+.\" Definitions
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ A4 paper in landscape orientation for the PS device:
 .
 .IP
 .EX
-groff -Tps -P-pa4 -P-l \&...\&
+groff \-Tps \-P-pa4 \-P-l \&...\&
 .EE
 .
 .
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man b/tmac/groff_man.7.man
index 69e56677..1cd3f46c 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ second argument.
 .
 .IP
 For example, the following paragraphs were all set up with bullets as
-the designator, using \[oq].IP\ \\(bu\ 4\[cq].
+the designator, using \[oq].IP\ \e(bu\ 4\[cq].
 .
 The whole block has been enclosed with
 .B .RS
-- 
2.13.2






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