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Re: [RFR] Description and manpage of rsstail



Justin B Rye wrote:
>> Parse a RSS feed and read it, in an output similar to the
>> tail command. 
>
>  Parse an RSS feed and read it, giving output similar to the
>  tail command.

Oops, I corrected the "a" to "an" here, but missed it in the patch
on the troff source.  Fixed version:

--- rsstail.1.old	2007-06-09 03:50:46.000000000 +0100
+++ rsstail.1.new	2007-06-09 21:30:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .TH "RSSTAIL" "1" "0.1" "" "User Commands"
 .SH "NAME"
-\fBrsstail\fB \- Console Based RSS news reader 
+\fBrsstail\fB \- console RSS reader
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .PP 
 \fBrsstail\fR [\fBOPTIONS\fB]... \fB\-u\fB URL 
@@ -10,19 +10,19 @@
 because the original program does not have a manual page. 
 .PP 
 
-Parse a RSS feed and read it, in an output similar to the tail command.
+Parse an RSS feed and read it, giving output similar to the tail command.
 .SH "OPTIONS"
 .PP 
-This is a Few Description on the main options for rsstail
+This is a synopsis of the main options for rsstail:
  
 .IP "\fB\-t\fP" 10
-Show timestamp.
+Show timestamp
 .IP "\fB\-l\fP" 10
-Show link
+Show links
 .IP "\fB\-d\fB" 10
-Show Description
+Show description
 .IP "\fB\-p\fB" 10
-Show Publication date
+Show publication date
 .IP "\fB\-a\fB" 10
 Show author
 .IP "\fB\-c\fB" 10



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