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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 | 23 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 b/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 index e754d7b6483..ad720445d89 100644 --- a/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 +++ b/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: fmt.1,v 1.18 2006/11/29 20:09:27 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: fmt.1,v 1.19 2006/11/29 20:18:50 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -66,15 +66,16 @@ to 65 and the to 10 more than the .Ar goal length. +.Pp Alternatively, a single .Ar width parameter can be specified either by prepending a hyphen to it or by using .Fl w . For example, -.Dq Li fmt -w 72 , -.Dq Li fmt -72 , +.Dq fmt -w 72 , +.Dq fmt -72 , and -.Dq Li fmt 72 72 +.Dq fmt 72 72 all produce identical output. The spacing at the beginning of the input lines is preserved in the output, as are blank lines and interword spacing. @@ -88,18 +89,18 @@ Center the text, line by line. In this case, most of the other options are ignored; no splitting or joining of lines is done. .It Fl d Ar chars -Treat the +Treat .Ar chars (and no others) as sentence-ending characters. By default the sentence-ending characters are full stop .Pq Ql \&. , question mark -.Pq Ql \&? +.Pq Ql \&? , and exclamation mark .Pq Ql \&! . Remember that some characters may need to be -escaped to protect them from your shell. +escaped to protect them from the shell. .It Fl l Ar number Replace multiple spaces with tabs at the start of each output line, if possible. @@ -125,9 +126,9 @@ flag, any change in the amount of whitespace at the start of a line results in a new paragraph being begun. .It Fl s Collapse whitespace inside lines, so that multiple whitespace -characters are turned into a single space. -(Or, at the end of a -sentence, a double space.) +characters are turned into a single space +(or, at the end of a +sentence, a double space). .It Fl t Ar number Assume that the input files' tabs assume .Ar number @@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ The version described herein is a complete rewrite and appeared in .An Gareth McCaughan (wrote this version) .Sh BUGS -The program was designed to be simple and fast \- for more complex +The program was designed to be simple and fast \(en for more complex operations, the standard text processors are likely to be more appropriate. .Pp When the first line of an indented paragraph is very long (more than |