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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2011-08-25 22:26:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-08-29 11:24:41 +0200 |
| commit | 5bcd986ed3b3cbcb645c249ee4018522c723a380 (patch) | |
| tree | dd297c687acba414354cae52b705b3eec990a85f /text-utils/col.1 | |
| parent | docs: also uniformize headers and footers of troff-formatted man pages (diff) | |
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docs: tweak the formatting and wording of some text-utils man pages
Highlight the program name, use proper lowercase, remove
unneeded commas and articles, and add helpful hyphenation.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/col.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/col.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/col.1 b/text-utils/col.1 index 7f3e41344..bbec8feee 100644 --- a/text-utils/col.1 +++ b/text-utils/col.1 @@ -45,16 +45,16 @@ .Op Fl bfphx .Op Fl l Ar num .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Col -filters out reverse (and half reverse) line feeds so the output is -in the correct order with only forward and half forward line +.Nm +filters out reverse (and half-reverse) line feeds so the output is +in the correct order with only forward and half-forward line feeds, and replaces white-space characters with tabs where possible. This can be useful in processing the output of .Xr nroff 1 and .Xr tbl 1 . .Pp -.Nm Col +.Nm reads from standard input and writes to standard output. .Pp The options are as follows: @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Do not output any backspaces, printing only the last character written to each column position. .It Fl f, Fl Fl fine Forward half line feeds are permitted (``fine'' mode). -Normally characters printed on a half line boundary are printed +Normally characters printed on a half-line boundary are printed on the following line. .It Fl p, Fl Fl pass Force unknown control sequences to be passed through unchanged. @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ reverse line feed (11) All unrecognized control characters and escape sequences are discarded. .Pp -.Nm Col +.Nm keeps track of the character set as characters are read and makes sure the character set is correct when they are output. .Pp |