From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] man-pages.7: tfix
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:56:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221215065630.65388-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
man7/man-pages.7 | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 0d58f81d5..a21f88d86 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -634,14 +634,14 @@ macro.
An example is this "Tagged paragraphs" subsection is itself.
.TP
Ordered lists
-Elements are preceeded by a number in parentheses (1), (2).
+Elements are preceded by a number in parentheses (1), (2).
These represent a set of steps that have an order.
.IP
When there are substeps,
they will be numbered like (4.2).
.TP
Positional lists
-Elements are preceeded by a number (index) in square brackets [4], [5].
+Elements are preceded by a number (index) in square brackets [4], [5].
These represent fields in a set.
The first index will be:
.IP
@@ -660,11 +660,11 @@ to be consistent with tools like
.RE
.TP
Alternatives list
-Elements are preceeded by a letter in parentheses (a), (b).
+Elements are preceded by a letter in parentheses (a), (b).
These represent a set of (normally) exclusive alternatives.
.TP
Bullet lists
-Elements are preceeded by bullet symbols
+Elements are preceded by bullet symbols
.RB ( \e(bu ).
Anything that doesn't fit elsewhere is
usually covered by this type of list.
--
2.38.1
next reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-15 6:56 Eric Biggers [this message]
2022-12-15 12:29 ` [PATCH] man-pages.7: tfix Alejandro Colomar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-01-28 15:29 Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-28 20:11 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-25 21:17 Jakub Wilk
2021-01-28 11:50 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-01-20 21:48 Simon Paillard
[not found] ` <1390254504-13150-1-git-send-email-spaillard-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-21 6:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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