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George Koehler f91bc2804d Tune the installed manual pages.
This commit slightly improves the formatting of the manuals.  My
OpenBSD machine uses mandoc(1) to format manuals.  I check the manuals
with `mandoc -T lint` and fix most of the warnings.  I also make
other changes where mandoc didn't warn me.

roff(7) says, "Each sentence should terminate at the end of an input
line," but we often forgot this rule.  I insert some newlines after
sentences that had ended mid-line.

roff(7) also says that blank lines "are only permitted within literal
contexts."  I delete blank lines.  This removes some extra blank lines
from mandoc's output.  If I do want a blank line in the output, I call
".sp 1" to make it in man(7).  If I want a blank line in the source,
but not the output, I put a plain dot "." so roff ignores it.

Hyphens used for command-line options, like \-a, should be escaped by
a backslash.  I insert a few missing backslashes.

mandoc warns if the date in .TH doesn't look like a date.  Our manuals
had a missing date or the RCS keyword "$Revision$".  Git doesn't
expand RCS keywords.  I put in today's date, 2017-01-18.

Some manuals used tab characters in filled mode.  That doesn't work.
I use .nf to turn off filled mode, or I use .IP in man(7) to make the
indentation without a tab character.

ack(1) defined a macro .SB but never used it, so I delete the
definition.  I also remove a call to the missing macro .RF.

mandoc warns about empty paragraphs.  I deleted them.  mandoc also
warned about these macro pairs in anm(1):

    .SM
    .B text

The .SM did nothing because the .B text is on a different line.  I
changed each pair to .SB for small bold text.

I make a few other small changes.
2017-01-18 23:02:30 -05:00
ceriel efacd02ffd Added LONGCARD as a local extension 1996-08-14 07:42:40 +00:00
ceriel 6286b4b1a9 Fixed manual page 1991-10-09 16:05:24 +00:00
ceriel 7551b8e83a Changes to manual page 1991-10-01 12:18:39 +00:00
ceriel 8eecdff85a added support for debugger 1990-07-30 15:56:25 +00:00
ceriel a1b4e28760 Added a local extension: procedure constants 1989-03-03 16:13:45 +00:00
ceriel 795a078d08 too many changes: some cosmetic; some for 2/4; some for added options 1988-03-21 17:22:26 +00:00
ceriel b668810351 sets now allowed for all subranges 1987-10-28 16:03:56 +00:00
ceriel 015e1b776e Some corrections and additions to improve the mechanism for
generating warnings on unused/uninitialized variables
1987-10-21 11:29:52 +00:00
ceriel 0983b7700f changed code for loops a bit, and fixed an error in MkCoercion 1987-08-19 18:07:41 +00:00
ceriel efafb68f00 - fixes: improved POINTER TO IDENT mechanism, prevent core dump when
definition module not found, corrected typo.
- changed mechanism for variables that have their address given.
- added option for symmetric integer ranges
1987-06-29 12:46:00 +00:00
ceriel b98c031192 minor adaptions 1987-05-13 14:55:34 +00:00
ceriel 927a5636bd removed the limitation on number of include directories,
some bug fixes,
sets now have a constant and a variable part
1987-05-11 14:38:37 +00:00
ceriel cbb10e3b1b I forgot 1987-04-14 11:11:03 +00:00