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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Some more markup.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/59c32da0ed0f
branches: trunk
changeset: 535992:59c32da0ed0f
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Wed Sep 04 00:41:40 2002 +0000
description:
Some more markup.
diffstat:
share/man/man4/speaker.4 | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diffs (53 lines):
diff -r cb11bd2fbcd6 -r 59c32da0ed0f share/man/man4/speaker.4
--- a/share/man/man4/speaker.4 Wed Sep 04 00:26:08 2002 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/speaker.4 Wed Sep 04 00:41:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: speaker.4,v 1.9 2002/02/13 08:17:46 ross Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: speaker.4,v 1.10 2002/09/04 00:41:40 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -48,10 +48,12 @@
.Pp
Only one process may have this device open at any given time; open() and
close() are used to lock and relinquish it. An attempt to open() when
-another process has the device locked will return -1 with an EBUSY error
-indication. Writes to the device are interpreted as 'play strings' in a
-simple ASCII melody notation. An ioctl() for tone generation at arbitrary
-frequencies is also supported.
+another process has the device locked will return -1 with an
+.Er EBUSY
+error indication. Writes to the device are interpreted as 'play strings' in a
+simple ASCII melody notation. An
+.Fn ioctl
+for tone generation at arbitrary frequencies is also supported.
.Pp
Sound-generation does
.Em not
@@ -59,9 +61,14 @@
spends most of its time sleeping while the PC hardware is emitting
tones. Other processes may emit beeps while the driver is running.
.Pp
-Applications may call ioctl() on a speaker file descriptor to control the
-speaker driver directly; definitions for the ioctl() interface are in
-\*[Lt]machine/spkr.h\*[Gt]. The tone_t structure used in these calls has two fields,
+Applications may call
+.Fn ioctl
+on a speaker file descriptor to control the speaker driver directly;
+definitions for the
+.Fn ioctl
+interface are in
+.Aq Pa machine/spkr.h .
+The tone_t structure used in these calls has two fields,
specifying a frequency (in hz) and a duration (in 1/100ths of a second).
A frequency of zero is interpreted as a rest.
.Pp
@@ -152,7 +159,7 @@
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pcppi 4
.Sh AUTHORS
-Eric S. Raymond (esr%snark.thyrsus.com@localhost) Feb 1990
+.An Eric S. Raymond Aq esr%snark.thyrsus.com@localhost
.Sh BUGS
Due to roundoff in the pitch tables and slop in the tone-generation and timer
hardware (neither of which was designed for precision), neither pitch accuracy
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