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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-19 12:04:20 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-19 12:04:20 +0000
commitef57e3bcf1a7fb7eda2717fc2334fe599da01888 (patch)
tree2dfab531417a3727241a1770352ef10adda89493 /chapter06/man.xml
parent3042296e6f99f7795884e3bf6ca8a8a646488912 (diff)
Amplied the Index entries for Hotplug and Linux-Libc-Headers.
Tags corrections. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3811 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml
index 54f7174a6..01c8c9c5d 100644
--- a/chapter06/man.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ width instead of being limited to 80 characters:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-version;-80cols-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-<para>The second is a sed substitution to add the <emphasis>-R</emphasis>
+<para>The second is a sed substitution to add the <parameter>-R</parameter>
switch to the <emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so that escape sequences are
properly handled by Less:</para>
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ redundant results when using programs such as <command>whatis</command>:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>-confdir=/etc</userinput></term>
+<term><parameter>-confdir=/etc</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>This tells the
<command>man</command> program to look for the <filename>man.conf</filename>
-configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
+configuration file in the <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
@@ -72,23 +72,23 @@ configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
<note><para>If you wish to disable SGR (Select Graphic Rendition) escape sequences, you should edit the
-<filename>man.conf</filename> file and add the <emphasis>-c</emphasis> switch
+<filename>man.conf</filename> file and add the <parameter>-c</parameter> switch
to NROFF.</para></note>
<para>If your character set uses 8-bit characters, search for the line
-beginning with "NROFF" in /etc/man.conf, and verify that it coincides
+beginning with <quote>NROFF</quote> in <filename>/etc/man.conf</filename>, and verify that it coincides
with the following:</para>
<screen>NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc</screen>
-<para>Note that you should use "latin1" even if it is not the character set
+<para>Note that you should use <quote>latin1</quote> even if it is not the character set
of your locale. The reason is that,
according to the specification, <application>groff</application> has
no means of typesetting characters outside ISO-8859-1
without some strange escape codes, and localized manual
pages are therefore really a hack. When formatting manual pages,
<application>groff</application> thinks that they are in the ISO-8859-1
-encoding and this <emphasis>-Tlatin1</emphasis> switch tells
+encoding and this <parameter>-Tlatin1</parameter> switch tells
<application>groff</application> to use the same encoding for output.
Since <application>groff</application> does no recoding of input characters,
the formatted result is really in the same encoding as input (although