Bug#369639: tetex-bin: Description of -output-directory a bit garbled.

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 369639 patch
thanks

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

> In tex(1) the description of -output-directory starts:
>
> "directory  instead  of  the  current directory"
>
> so it looks like there's something missing at the start. It would also
> be nice if the description of the option mentioned TEXMFOUTPUT.

Thanks for reporting, it's a syntax error in the manpage.  Here's a
patch:

--- texk/web2c/man/tex.man	2005-07-20 12:28:14.000000000 +0200
+++ ../tex.man	2006-05-31 11:49:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -308,11 +308,12 @@
 file comment instead of the date.
 .TP
 .BI -output-directory \ directory
-.rb Write output files in
+.rb 
+Write output files in
 .I directory
 instead of the current directory.  Look up input files in
 .I directory
-first, the along the normal search path.
+first, then along the normal search path.
 .TP
 .B -parse-first-line
 .rb

Somebody care to report this upstream (the tex-k list, I suppose)?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)