Bug#726962: startx(1): Macro '..' is not defined in the manual and some formatting improvements
Package: xinit
Version: 1.3.2-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
From "groff -b -ww -mandoc -z":
groff:<standard input>:128: warning: macro `.' not defined
Input file is /usr/share/man/man1/startx.1.gz
Changes (besides the warning):
Extra hair space (\^) between two dashes (\-)
Changed word 'legal' to 'valid'
Added extra word space between \-- and \- as one word space is too
small in the output of 'troff'
Increased word space between some sentences. Better is to start each
sentence on a new line
Patch:
--- startx.1 2013-10-20 22:44:10.000000000 +0000
+++ startx.1.new 2013-10-20 23:14:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Arguments immediately following the
command are used to start a client in the same manner as
.BR xinit (1).
The special argument
-.RB '--'
+.RB ' \-\^\- '
marks the end of client arguments and the beginning of server options.
It may be convenient to specify server options with startx to change on a
per-session basis the
@@ -65,14 +65,16 @@ permitted by the
server and specified in the
.BR xorg.conf (5)
configuration. Some examples of specifying server arguments follow; consult
-the manual page for your X server to determine which arguments are legal.
+the manual page for your X server to determine which arguments are valid.
.RS
.PP
-startx -- -depth 16
+.\" One word space between \- and \- is too short in the output of
+.\" troff.
+startx \-\^\- \-depth 16
.PP
-startx -- -dpi 100
+startx \-\^\- \-dpi 100
.PP
-startx -- -layout Multihead
+startx \-\^\- \-layout Multihead
.RE
.if ''' .ig
.PP
@@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ instead; this permits the same X environ
.IR xdm ,
or
.I xinit
-is used to start the X session. All discussion of the
+is used to start the X session. All discussion of the
.I .xinitrc
file in the
.IR xinit (1)
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ the file
in the
.I xinit
library directory.
-..
+.
If command line client options are given, they override this
behavior and revert to the
.BR xinit (1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.46-1-rt67-1
Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii coreutils 8.13-3.5
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii x11-common 1:7.7+3~deb7u1
ii xauth 1:1.0.7-1
Versions of packages xinit recommends:
ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+3~deb7u1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 278-4
xinit suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
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