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authorRuss Allbery <rra@debian.org>2008-02-17 22:17:59 -0800
committerRuss Allbery <rra@debian.org>2018-05-26 19:03:58 -0700
commitb587677449689644cd71b6fbcfa3c4078940b5e2 (patch)
treeaf10bc4d715531d6b22fb7947cdc261bf4db0b27
parent56657bcd5a2fa61023bbaceec733caa65204bfbb (diff)
Minor man page fixes
Escape hyphens properly, add a better man page header, fix the placement of punctuation around font changes, and fix a spelling error. Gbp-Pq: Name 0003-Minor-man-page-fixes.patch
-rw-r--r--src/tf.1.nroffman34
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/tf.1.nroffman b/src/tf.1.nroffman
index e8daaca..90691db 100644
--- a/src/tf.1.nroffman
+++ b/src/tf.1.nroffman
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
.\" $Id: tf.1.nroffman,v 34000.8 2007/01/13 23:12:39 kkeys Exp $
-.TH TF 1 LOCAL
+.TH TF 1 "2007-01-13" "TinyFugue 5.0" "TinyFugue"
.SH NAME
tf \- TinyFugue, a MUD client
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B "tf [-f\fIfile\fB] [-lnq] [\fIworld\fB]"
+.B "tf [\-f\fIfile\fB] [\-lnq] [\fIworld\fB]"
.br
-.B "tf [-f\fIfile\fB] \fIhost\fB \fIport\fB"
+.B "tf [\-f\fIfile\fB] \fIhost\fB \fIport\fB"
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fITinyFugue\fR (also known as "Fugue" or "TF") is a line-based client
designed for connecting to MUD servers (note: LP, DIKU, and other servers
@@ -48,15 +48,15 @@ world and try to connect to it.
The \fBhost\fR may be an IP number or regular name format.
.PP
OPTIONS
-.IP "-f\fIfile\fR"
+.IP "\-f\fIfile\fR"
Load \fIfile\fR instead of $HOME/.tfrc at startup.
-.IP "-f"
+.IP "\-f"
Do not load any personal configuration file. The library will still be loaded.
-.IP "-l"
+.IP "\-l"
Disable automatic login.
-.IP "-n"
+.IP "\-n"
Do not connect to any world at startup.
-.IP "-q"
+.IP "\-q"
Quiet login (overrides %{quiet} flag).
.SH FEATURES
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Log a session to a file.
.sp
Separate LP and Diku style prompts from normal output.
.sp
-Page output using a --More-- prompt.
+Page output using a \-\-More\-\- prompt.
.sp
Recall previously received text.
@@ -120,14 +120,14 @@ configuration file "stdlib.tf", located in TFLIBDIR.
TFLIBDIR is defined when \fITF\fR is installed, and is often
/usr/local/lib/tf.lib, or under the home directory of the installer.
This library contains many macros
-and definitions essential to the correct operation of \fITF.\fR
+and definitions essential to the correct operation of \fITF\fR.
Next, \fITF\fR will attempt to read your personal configuration
file, $HOME/.tfrc, in which you can put any \fITF\fR commands you
want executed automatically at startup. Two of the most useful
commands to use in a \fITF\fR configuration file are /addworld and /load.
-For backward compatability, \fITF\fR will also try
+For backward compatibility, \fITF\fR will also try
to read the \fITinyTalk\fR configuration file.
Its name defautls to $HOME/.tinytalk, or can be defined by the TINYTALK
environment variable.
@@ -140,19 +140,19 @@ the first Tinyclient with any great number of features, including
hiliting and suppression of text, simple triggers, and separating input and
output on the screen.
Leo Plotkin (Grod) made rather extensive modifications to \fITinytalk\fR
-to produce \fITinywar,\fR which was plagued with some
+to produce \fITinywar\fR, which was plagued with some
serious bugs and was never officially released (the phrase "Tinywar
doesn't exist" is often quoted), and is now an unsupported client.
\fITF\fR began when Greg Hudson (Explorer_Bob) merged many of the new
-features of \fITinywar\fR back into \fITinyTalk,\fR
+features of \fITinywar\fR back into \fITinyTalk\fR,
and added many new features of his own, most notably the split screen.
Some of the code in Greg's releases was contributed by Leo Plotkin.
-After Greg moved on to \fIVaporTalk,\fR Ken Keys (Hawkeye) took over design
+After Greg moved on to \fIVaporTalk\fR, Ken Keys (Hawkeye) took over design
and maintenance of \fITF\fR in July 1991, and continues to make improvements
in features and performance.
.PP
The code size of \fITF\fR has surpassed 300K (unstripped),
-and is signifigantly larger than \fITinytalk.\fR
+and is signifigantly larger than \fITinytalk\fR.
It is, in fact, more than three times the size of a number of existing servers.
As of version 3.0, it has 66 builtin commands and 57 library commands,
each documented in the helpfile.
@@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ default macro library.
.PP
The .tinytalk file may not be supported in the future; use .tfrc instead.
.PP
-The '-' command line option in versions prior to 2.0 is no longer supported,
-and has been replaced with '-l'.
+The '\-' command line option in versions prior to 2.0 is no longer supported,
+and has been replaced with '\-l'.
.SH BUGS
.PP