From 978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:29:16 +0000
Subject: Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2879 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 appendixa/man-desc.xml | 43 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

(limited to 'appendixa/man-desc.xml')

diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml
index db7b08812..4f9273dca 100644
--- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml
@@ -6,32 +6,23 @@
 
 <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
 
-<sect4><title>apropos</title>
-<para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing
-short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
-output.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>makewhatis</title>
-<para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of 
-manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of 
-catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each 
-line consists of the name of the page and a short description, 
-separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of 
-the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>man</title>
-<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>man2dvi</title>
-<para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>man2html</title>
-<para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>whatis</title>
-<para>whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short
-descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
-output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>apropos</command> searches the whatis database and displays
+the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string.</para>
+
+<para><command>makewhatis</command> builds the whatis database. It reads
+all the manual pages in the manpath and for each page writes the name and a
+short description in the whatis database.</para>
+
+<para><command>man</command> formats and displays the requested on-line
+manual page.</para>
+
+<para><command>man2dvi</command> converts a manual page into dvi format.</para>
+
+<para><command>man2html</command> converts a manual page into html.</para>
+
+<para><command>whatis</command> searches the whatis database and displays
+the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a
+separate word.</para>
 
 </sect3>
 
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