bugGNU troff - Bugs: bug #46319, errors in info pages

 
 

bug #46319: errors in info pages

Submitted by:  Dave <barx>
Submitted on:  Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:22:16 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Werner LEMBERG <wl>
Open/Closed: ClosedPlanned Release: 1.22.4

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Thu 19 Nov 2015 07:12:03 PM UTC, comment #2:

Applied, thanks!

Werner LEMBERG <wl>
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Tue 17 Nov 2015 07:04:02 PM UTC, comment #1:

I've attached a patch to fix the described problems. This patch also fixes

- examples in the section about the \\, \e, and \E escapes where the given code did not produce the documented result

- a few typos and grammar and punctuation errors

Please let me know if there are any issues with it.

(file #35482)

Dave <barx>
Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:22:16 AM UTC, original submission:

A couple errors in groff's info pages are described below. For each error, I've supplied a command that shows the text where the error is, followed by a short description of the problem with that segment. These commands all work against the latest version (commit a6690261058803fbb63af9f078ad5541d1beab0c) of doc/groff.texi.

$ fgrep -A28 'item latin-1' doc/groff.texi

Note the latin-1 and latin-2 sections consistently use "latin-1" and "latin-2" throughout their respective blocks, but the latin-5 section has elements referring to itself as both "latin-2" and "latin9".

$ fgrep -A4 '{ds}, and @code{as}' doc/groff.texi

This block says "string diversion" where it seems to mean only "string." Also, the phrase "together with its variants" ought to be "together with their variants," since most if not all of the cited requests have variants.

$ fgrep -A1 '(this is, using' doc/groff.texi

Since the caller needn't be a macro, it seems this should say "from the caller" rather than "from the calling macro."

Also, the English idiom is "that is," not "this is." This nonstandard phrase also appears a few other times throughout the info manual.

Dave <barx>

 

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file #35482:  groff_doc.patch added by barx (6KiB - text/x-diff - groff.texi patch)

 

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      Planned ReleaseNone=>1.22.4
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