- typos, punctuation, spacing, macro, layout, etc. fixes

- avoid first person

ok jmc

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
index d533d7a7b0f..8e1e85942b6 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.13 2005/07/26 03:27:04 jaredy Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.14 2005/07/26 03:30:25 jaredy Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Scanning also stops when an input conversion cannot be made (see below).
 .Sh CONVERSIONS
 Following the
 .Cm %
-character introducing a conversion there may be a number of
+character, introducing a conversion, there may be a number of
 .Em flag
 characters, as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width indent
@@ -282,14 +282,15 @@ plus a terminating
 .Tn NUL
 character.
 The usual skip of leading whitespace is suppressed.
+.Pp
 The string is to be made up of characters in
 (or not in)
 a particular set;
 the set is defined by the characters between the open bracket
-.Cm [
+.Cm \&[
 character
 and a close bracket
-.Cm ]
+.Cm \&]
 character.
 The set excludes those characters
 if the first character after the open bracket is a circumflex
@@ -305,12 +306,15 @@ when placed between two other characters,
 it adds all intervening characters to the set.
 To include a hyphen,
 make it the last character before the final close bracket.
+.Pp
 For instance,
 .Ql [^]0-9-]
-means the set `everything except close bracket, zero through nine,
-and hyphen'.
-The string ends with the appearance of a character not in the
-(or, with a circumflex, in) set
+means the set
+.Do
+everything except close bracket, zero through nine, and hyphen
+.Dc .
+The string ends with the appearance of a character not in
+(or, with a circumflex, in) the set
 or when the field width runs out.
 .It Cm p
 Matches a pointer value (as printed by