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authorArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-07-04 22:03:52 +0000
committerArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-07-04 22:03:52 +0000
commit374283348fe30bc647014d812b594d6a90790730 (patch)
treeb6419a2487f9b41e6c224b06930d9c7444963fa8 /chapter06/man.xml
parent57071547e7462511d52364a3de28d4719121adfa (diff)
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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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml
index 57cf3e6a2..72bb784b3 100644
--- a/chapter06/man.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man"><primary sortas="a-Man">Man</primary></indexterm>
<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>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and verify that it matches the following:</para>
the character set of the locale. The reason is that, according to the
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
<command>groff</command> to use the same encoding for output. Since
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ formatted result is really in the same encoding as input, and therefore
it is usable as the input for a pager.</para>
<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.
The second issue is not of concern because the LFS installation does
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ man2dvi, man2html, and whatis</seg></seglistitem>
<varlistentry id="apropos">
<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>
</listitem>
@@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ of system commands that contain a given string</para>
<varlistentry id="makewhatis">
<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>
</varlistentry>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ database for each page</para>
<varlistentry id="man">
<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>
</varlistentry>
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ database for each page</para>
<varlistentry id="man2dvi">
<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>
</varlistentry>
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ database for each page</para>
<varlistentry id="man2html">
<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>
</varlistentry>
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ database for each page</para>
<varlistentry id="whatis">
<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>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man whatis"><primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary></indexterm>