From 4114088e9172bd8b42391803b67a7e8ff24b4cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:52:02 +0000
Subject: Adding more missing markup, and rewording a few paragraphs.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2710 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/man-inst.xml | 21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06/man-inst.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/man-inst.xml b/chapter06/man-inst.xml
index 075318032..5862f110c 100644
--- a/chapter06/man-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man-inst.xml
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Man</title>
 
-<para>There are three patches for Man. The first patch comments out one of the
-lines in the <filename>man.conf</filename> file (MANPATH /usr/man) to
-prevent redundant results when using programs such as
-<userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
+<para>We'l make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
+ 
+ <para>The first patch comments out the "MANPATH /usr/man" line in the
+ <filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results when using
+ programs such as <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
@@ -16,17 +17,17 @@ handled properly:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-pager-patch-version;-pager.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>The last patch prevents problem when man pages not formatted
-with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases
-of <userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
+<para>The third and last patch prevents a problem when man pages not formatted
+with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases of
+<userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-80cols-patch-version;-80cols.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>The paths to some programs are written into man's files.
-Unfortunately, the configure script picks the last location in PATH
+<para>The paths to some programs are hard-wired into Man's executables.
+Unfortunately, the configuration script picks the last location in PATH
 rather than the first place a program is found. By appending
 <emphasis>/usr/bin:/bin</emphasis> to PATH for the
-<userinput>./configure</userinput> command, we ensure that man doesn't
+<userinput>./configure</userinput> command, we ensure that Man doesn't
 use the programs in the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename>
 directory.</para>
 
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