Subject: misc/19645: possible typos in GNU roff man pages
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <sobrado@acm.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/02/2003 12:04:46
>Number:         19645
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       possible typos in GNU roff man pages
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 02 12:05:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Igor Sobrado
>Release:        1.6
>Organization:
University of Oviedo
>Environment:
NetBSD ns1.localnet 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep  8 19:43:40 UTC 2002
     autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

>Description:
There are *possible* typos in the next GNU roff related man pages
(some can be right words, sometimes I make mistakes with British
variants of some words...)

  groff(7)        - repition (repetition), 2-characer (2-character),
                    lenght (length), ident (indent)
  groff_man(7)    - supressed (suppressed)
  groff_markup(7) - SYNPOSIS (SYNOPSIS) (is it the "SYNOPSIS" section?)
  groff_mm(7)     - wich, defualt (default), centerered (centered),
                    behavies (behaves), argmuent (argument),
                    with a automatically (with an automatically),
                    Varable (Variable???), captial (capital),
                    argumenent (argument), specifed (specified),
                    excibits (is that word ok?), digitsized (digit-sized?),
                    lable (label)
  troff(1)        - environents (environments)
  grohtml(1)      - supress (suppress)
  groff_font(5)   - intepreted (interpreted)
  groff_tmac(5)   - constitue (constitute???)

>How-To-Repeat:
Reading the GNU roff man pages.
>Fix:
Same as in the previous days, changing the man pages source code.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: