[bug #57863] [PATCH] INSTALL.extra: Change '.n' to a ".<section number>"

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57863>

                 Summary: [PATCH] INSTALL.extra: Change '.n' to a ".<section
number>"
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: bjarniig
            Submitted on: Wed 19 Feb 2020 10:38:07 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

>From b16f440d307493e4d89cb894273f20b0d988064c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:31:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL.extra: Change '.n' to a ".<section number>"

  The suffix '.n' in names of created man pages is an older convention.

  Changed in commit 9d885c6b342f71594af5d45f37ce65c121641e25
(Thu Aug 27 13:27:25 2015 +0200).

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <address@hidden>
---
 INSTALL.extra | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.extra b/INSTALL.extra
index d7bb2fd0..799647e3 100644
--- a/INSTALL.extra
+++ b/INSTALL.extra
@@ -124,11 +124,12 @@ page length can be changed with the `pl' request.
 
 When you have built groff but not installed yet, you can use the
 test-groff script to try groff out on one of the man pages.  (Use the
-.n files not the .man files.)  The test-groff script sets up environment
-variables to allow groff to run without being installed.  For example,
-you could do
+.n ("n" is the section number) files not the .man files.)
+The test-groff script sets up environment variables to allow groff to
+run without being installed.
+For example, you could do (in the build dirctory)
 
-  ./test-groff -man -Tascii src/roff/groff/groff.n | less
+  ./test-groff -man -Tascii src/roff/groff/groff.1 | less
 
 to display the groff(1) man page with the `less' pager.
 
-- 
2.25.0






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