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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-12-20 11:36:34 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-12-20 11:36:34 +0000
commitb5ba359031b31d68f469401aa4459f3b6004c80b (patch)
tree83de6a0b1c5db966af40447dd9e4bcd21926cc44 /share/man
parentb5583090facd1ec1fd17f02d40daf6c07acfb175 (diff)
some typos and wording improvements from Tom Cosgrove;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.716
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index 14e7cfbc7fa..eec8d73cde3 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.47 2003/10/04 14:50:45 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.48 2003/12/20 11:36:33 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.5 1996/04/03 20:17:34 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Most macros in
accept nine arguments and,
in limited cases, arguments may be continued or extended
on the
-next line (See
+next line (see
.Sx Extended Arguments ) .
A few macros handle quoted arguments (see
.Sx Passing Space Characters in an Argument
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ containing blank spaces is to use the hard or unpaddable space character
.Ql \e\ ,
that is, a blank space preceded by the escape character
.Ql \e .
-This method may be used with any macro but has the side effect
+This method may be used with any macro, but has the side effect
of interfering with the adjustment of text
over the length of a line.
.Em Troff
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ without arguments.
The
.Ql \&.Ev
macro is parsed and is callable.
-.Ss Errno (Section two only)
+.Ss Errno (section two only)
The
.Ql \&.Er
errno macro specifies the error return value
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ The
.Ql \&.Xr
macro expects the first argument to be
a manual page name, and the second argument, if it exists,
-to be either a section page number or punctuation.
+to be either a section number or punctuation.
Any
remaining arguments are assumed to be punctuation.
.Pp
@@ -2474,7 +2474,7 @@ There are six types of displays: a quickie, one-line indented display
.Ql \&.D1 ;
a quickie one-line literal display
.Ql \&.Dl ;
-and a block-ragged, block-unfilled, block-filled, and block-literal
+and block-ragged, block-unfilled, block-filled, and block-literal displays,
which use the
.Ql \&.Bd
begin-display
@@ -2985,7 +2985,7 @@ is the name of the defined string or as
where
.Em x
is the name of the string.
-The interpreting sequence may be used any where in the text.
+The interpreting sequence may be used anywhere in the text.
.Bl -column "String " "Nroff " "Troff " -offset indent
.It Sy "String Nroff Troff"
.It Li "<=" Ta \&<\&= Ta \*(<=
@@ -3073,7 +3073,7 @@ In general, any time huge portions
of text do not appear where expected in the output, or small strings
such as list tags disappear, chances are there is a misunderstanding
about an argument type in the argument list.
-Your mother never intended for you to remember this evil stuff - so here
+Your mother never intended for you to remember this evil stuff \- so here
is a way to find out whether or not your arguments are valid: The
.Ql \&.Db
(debug)