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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.
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.TH EM_DECODE 6 2017-01-18
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.ad
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.SH NAME
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em_decode, em_encode \- compact to readable EM and v.v.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B ~em/lib.bin/em_decode
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[ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
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.br
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.B ~em/lib.bin/em_encode
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[ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Most programs involved with the EM project only produce and accept
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EM programs in compact form.
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These files are only machine readable.
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A description of this compact form can be found in [1].
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To inspect the code produced by compilers or to patch them for one reason
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or another, human readable assembly code is needed.
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Em_decode produces human readable assembly code from the compact form.
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.PP
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Em_decode accepts the normal compact form in both optimized and
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unoptimized form.
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.PP
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Em_encode produces the compact form
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out of these human readable assembly code.
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.PP
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The first argument is the input file.
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The second argument is the output file.
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Both programs can act as a filter.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IP [1]
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A.S.Tanenbaum, Ed Keizer, Hans van Staveren & J.W.Stevenson
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"Description of a machine architecture for use of
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block structured languages" Informatica rapport IR-81.
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.IP [2]
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ack(1)
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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Error messages are intended to be self-explanatory.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Ceriel Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit
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