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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-09-02 19:37:35 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-09-02 19:37:35 +0000
commit0af33c4dfe6f6074f86953dc6a1f7878907722a1 (patch)
treeb034308cb37cad7103a6dd9411f86eb6b1dc92d9 /roff.7
parent58410ab18d8940ee51f77422d69266ec19967ac8 (diff)
downloadmandoc-0af33c4dfe6f6074f86953dc6a1f7878907722a1.tar.gz
Fix typos and spelling errors found by demandoc -w | spell -b.
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@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ When called, they follow the same syntax as requests, except that
macro arguments may optionally be quoted by enclosing them
in double quote characters
.Pq Sq \(dq .
-To be recognized as the beginning of a quoted argument, the opening
+To be recognised as the beginning of a quoted argument, the opening
quote character must be preceded by a space character.
.Pp
A quoted argument may contain whitespace, and pairs of double quote
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ but quoting is usually better for clarity.
The
.Xr mandoc 1
.Nm
-parser recognizes the following requests.
+parser recognises the following requests.
Note that the
.Nm
language defines many more requests not implemented in
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ language defines many more requests not implemented in
.Ss \&ad
Set line adjustment mode.
This line-scoped request is intended to have one argument to select
-normal, left, right, or center adjustment for subsequent text.
+normal, left, right, or centre adjustment for subsequent text.
Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
and the number of arguments is not checked.
.Ss \&am