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ditroff(7): Minor typograpical changes in the manual

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Bjarni Ingi Gislason

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Dec 19, 2012, 3:22:14 PM12/19/12
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GROFF VERSION: groff-current from 3 Dec 2012 (based on version 1.21)

MACHINE: SunFire T5220

OS: SunOS 5.10

COMPILER: None

INPUT FILES: man/ditroff.man

COMMAND LINE: None

DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:

Space at end of line removed

"\c" eliminated

"\/" eliminated

SUGGESTED FIX:

--- groff-current/man/ditroff.man 2009-01-05 20:33:55.000000000 +0000
+++ devel/groff-current/man/ditroff.man 2012-12-19 19:58:10.279804164 +0000
@@ -63,16 +63,14 @@
creating an intermediate output format for troff that can be fed into
postprocessor programs which actually do the printout on the device.
.
-Kernighan's version marks what is known as
+Kernighan's version marks what is known as
.I classical troff
today.
.
In order to distinguish it from Ossanna's original mono-device version,
it was called
.I ditroff
-(\c
-.IR d\/ "evice " i\/ "ndependent " troff\/\c
-)
+.RI ( d "evice " i "ndependent " troff )
on some systems, though this naming isn't mentioned in the classical
documentation.
.
@@ -82,7 +80,7 @@
.
The distinction between
.I troff
-and
+and
.I ditroff
isn't necessary any longer, for each modern
.I troff
@@ -127,7 +125,7 @@
by
.I Brian Kernighan
is the original documentation of the first multi-device troff
-.RI ( ditroff\/ ),
+.RI ( ditroff ),
see
.UR http://\:cm.bell-labs.com/\:cm/\:cs/\:cstr/\:97.ps.gz
Bell Labs CSTR\~#97

Werner LEMBERG

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Dec 27, 2012, 4:55:10 PM12/27/12
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> INPUT FILES: man/ditroff.man
>
> COMMAND LINE: None
>
> DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:
>
> Space at end of line removed
>
> "\c" eliminated
>
> "\/" eliminated

Applied, thanks.


Werner

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