[src/trunk]: src/external/bsd/bc/dist bc(1): small mdoc fixes to improve Post...

[uwe <uwe%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/23c324154116
branches:  trunk
changeset: 958489:23c324154116
user:      uwe <uwe%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Thu Jan 07 19:49:13 2021 +0000

description:
bc(1): small mdoc fixes to improve PostScript output.

The length/scale example at the beginning is not all literal.
Fix remaining "quoted" words to use .Dq
Fix a few small inline code snippets to be literal.

diffstat:

 external/bsd/bc/dist/bc.1 |  63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diffs (145 lines):

diff -r 463499c65c1e -r 23c324154116 external/bsd/bc/dist/bc.1
--- a/external/bsd/bc/dist/bc.1 Thu Jan 07 19:11:58 2021 +0000
+++ b/external/bsd/bc/dist/bc.1 Thu Jan 07 19:49:13 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: bc.1,v 1.2 2017/04/17 14:01:19 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: bc.1,v 1.3 2021/01/07 19:49:13 uwe Exp $
 .\"
 .\" bc.1 - the bc manual
 .\"
@@ -109,10 +109,13 @@
 total number of significant decimal digits in a number and the scale
 is the total number of decimal digits after the decimal point.
 For example:
-.Bd -literal
- .000001 has a length of 6 and scale of 6.
- 1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale of 3.
-.Ed
+.Pp
+.Bl -inset -offset indent -compact
+.It Li .000001
+has a length of 6 and scale of 6.
+.It Li 1935.000
+has a length of 7 and a scale of 3.
+.El
 .Ss VARIABLES
 Numbers are stored in two types of variables, simple variables and
 arrays.
@@ -685,7 +688,9 @@
 .Ss PSEUDO STATEMENTS
 These statements are not statements in the traditional sense.
 They are not executed statements.
-Their function is performed at "compile" time.
+Their function is performed at
+.Dq compile
+time.
 .Bl -tag -width 15n
 .It Ic limits
 Print the local limits enforced by the local version of
@@ -713,7 +718,9 @@
 Functions in
 .Nm
 always compute a value and return it to the caller.
-Function definitions are "dynamic" in the sense that a function is
+Function definitions are
+.Dq dynamic
+in the sense that a function is
 undefined until a definition is encountered in the input.
 That definition is then used until another
 definition function for the same name is encountered.
@@ -745,7 +752,9 @@
 .Pp
 The
 .Ar auto_list
-is an optional list of variables that are for "local" use.
+is an optional list of variables that are for
+.Dq local
+use.
 The syntax of the auto list (if present) is
 .Do Ic auto Ar name , ... ; Dc .
 (The semicolon is optional.)
@@ -908,7 +917,9 @@
 These arguments are processed first, so any files listed in the
 environment arguments are processed before any command line argument
 files.
-This allows the user to set up "standard" options and files to be
+This allows the user to set up
+.Dq standard
+options and files to be
 processed at every invocation of
 .Nm .
 The files in the environment variables would typically contain
@@ -1044,7 +1055,9 @@
 .Xr dc 1 .
 This version is a single process which parses and runs a byte code
 translation of the program.
-There is an "undocumented" option
+There is an
+.Dq undocumented
+option
 .Fl ( c )
 that causes the program to output the byte code to
 the standard output instead of running it.
@@ -1152,27 +1165,32 @@
 .It  =+ , =- , =* , =/ , =% , =^
 POSIX
 .Nm
-does not require these "old style" assignment operators to
-be defined.
-This version may allow these "old style" assignments.
+does not require these
+.Dq old style
+assignment operators to be defined.
+This version may allow these
+.Dq old style
+assignments.
 Use the
 .Ic limits
 statement to see if the installed version supports them.
-If it does support the "old style" assignment operators, the statement
-.Dq a =- 1
+If it does support the
+.Dq old style
+assignment operators, the statement
+.Dq Li a =- 1
 will decrement
-.Ar a
+.Va a
 by 1 instead of setting
-.Ar a
+.Va a
 to the value \-1.
 .It spaces in numbers
 Other implementations of
 .Nm
 allow spaces in numbers.
 For example,
-.Dq x=1 3
+.Dq Li x=1 3
 would assign the value 13 to the variable
-.Ar x .
+.Va x .
 The same statement
 would cause a syntax error in this version of
 .Nm .
@@ -1209,7 +1227,8 @@
 signal (usually generated by the control-C character from the
 terminal) will cause execution of the current execution block to be
 interrupted.
-It will display a "runtime"
+It will display a
+.Dq runtime
 error indicating which function was interrupted.
 After all runtime structures have been cleaned up, a message will be
 printed to notify the user that
@@ -1251,7 +1270,9 @@
 .Dv INT_MAX
 characters.
 .It exponent
-The value of the exponent in the raise operation (^) is limited to
+The value of the exponent in the raise operation
+.Pq Ql ^
+is limited to
 .Dv LONG_MAX .
 .It variable names
 The current limit on the number of unique names is 32767 for each of