Changeset 37428334 for chapter06/man.xml

Timestamp:

07/04/2005 10:03:52 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Branches:

6.1, 6.1.1

Children:

a998246

Parents:

5707154

Message:

Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1/BOOK@6378 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/man.xml (modified) (9 diffs)

chapter06/man.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
 
 <sect2 role="package"><title/>
-<para>The Man package contains programs for finding and viewing manual pages.</para>
+<para>The Man package contains programs for finding and viewing man pages.</para>
 
 <segmentedlist>
@@ -87 +87 @@
 specification, <command>groff</command> has no means of typesetting
 characters outside International Organization for Standards
-(ISO) 8859-1 without some strange escape codes. When formatting manual
+(ISO) 8859-1 without some strange escape codes. When formatting man
 pages, <command>groff</command> thinks that they are in the ISO 8859-1
 encoding and this <parameter>-Tlatin1</parameter> switch tells
@@ -96 +96 @@
 
 <para>This does not solve the problem of a non-working
-<command>man2dvi</command> program for localized manual pages in
+<command>man2dvi</command> program for localized man pages in
 non-ISO 8859-1 locales. Also, it does not work with multibyte
 character sets. The first problem does not currently have a solution.
@@ -124 +124 @@
 <term><command>apropos</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions
+<para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays the short descriptions
 of system commands that contain a given string</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man apropos"><primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary></indexterm>
@@ -133 +133 @@
 <term><command>makewhatis</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Builds the whatis database; it reads all the manual pages in the
-manpath and writes the name and a short description in the whatis
-database for each page</para>
+<para>Builds the <command>whatis</command> database; it reads all the man pages
+in the <envar>MANPATH</envar> and writes the name and a short description in the
+<command>whatis</command> database for each page</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man makewhatis"><primary sortas="b-makewhatis">makewhatis</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
@@ -143 +143 @@
 <term><command>man</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Formats and displays the requested on-line manual page</para>
+<para>Formats and displays the requested on-line man page</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man man"><primary sortas="b-man">man</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
@@ -151 +151 @@
 <term><command>man2dvi</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Converts a manual page into dvi format</para>
+<para>Converts a man page into dvi format</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man man2dvi"><primary sortas="b-man2dvi">man2dvi</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
@@ -159 +159 @@
 <term><command>man2html</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Converts a manual page into HTML</para>
+<para>Converts a man page into HTML</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man man2html"><primary sortas="b-man2html">man2html</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
@@ -167 +167 @@
 <term><command>whatis</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions
+<para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays the short descriptions
 of system commands that contain the given keyword as a separate
 word</para>