Subject: misc/19645: possible typos in GNU roff man pages
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <sobrado@acm.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/02/2003 12:04:46
>Number: 19645
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: possible typos in GNU roff man pages
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 02 12:05:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Igor Sobrado
>Release: 1.6
>Organization:
University of Oviedo
>Environment:
NetBSD ns1.localnet 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep 8 19:43:40 UTC 2002
autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
There are *possible* typos in the next GNU roff related man pages
(some can be right words, sometimes I make mistakes with British
variants of some words...)
groff(7) - repition (repetition), 2-characer (2-character),
lenght (length), ident (indent)
groff_man(7) - supressed (suppressed)
groff_markup(7) - SYNPOSIS (SYNOPSIS) (is it the "SYNOPSIS" section?)
groff_mm(7) - wich, defualt (default), centerered (centered),
behavies (behaves), argmuent (argument),
with a automatically (with an automatically),
Varable (Variable???), captial (capital),
argumenent (argument), specifed (specified),
excibits (is that word ok?), digitsized (digit-sized?),
lable (label)
troff(1) - environents (environments)
grohtml(1) - supress (suppress)
groff_font(5) - intepreted (interpreted)
groff_tmac(5) - constitue (constitute???)
>How-To-Repeat:
Reading the GNU roff man pages.
>Fix:
Same as in the previous days, changing the man pages source code.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: