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-rw-r--r--demandoc.114
-rw-r--r--demandoc.c18
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/demandoc.1 b/demandoc.1
index 169616d2..1c1cd585 100644
--- a/demandoc.1
+++ b/demandoc.1
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ This outputs each word of text on its own line.
A
.Qq word ,
in this case, refers to whitespace-delimited terms beginning with at
-least two letters after opening punctuation and not consisting of any
-escape sequences.
+least two letters and not consisting of any escape sequences.
+Terms have their leading and trailing punctuation
+.Pq double-quotes, sentence punctuation, etc.
+stripped.
.It Ar
The input files.
.El
@@ -84,6 +86,14 @@ Such errors cause
to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .
.El
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The traditional usage of
+.Nm
+is for spell-checking manuals on
+.Bx .
+This is accomplished as follows (assuming British spelling):
+.Pp
+.Dl $ demandoc -w file.1 | spell -b
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mandoc 1 ,
.Xr man 7
diff --git a/demandoc.c b/demandoc.c
index b61e1fe8..8b6533f2 100644
--- a/demandoc.c
+++ b/demandoc.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static void
pstring(const char *p, int col, int *colp, int list)
{
enum mandoc_esc esc;
- const char *start;
+ const char *start, *end;
int emit;
/*
@@ -161,8 +161,20 @@ again:
} else if (isspace((unsigned char)*p))
break;
- if (emit && p - start >= 2) {
- for ( ; start != p; start++)
+ end = p - 1;
+
+ while (end > start)
+ if ('.' == *end || ',' == *end ||
+ '\'' == *end || '"' == *end ||
+ ')' == *end || '!' == *end ||
+ '?' == *end || ':' == *end ||
+ ';' == *end)
+ end--;
+ else
+ break;
+
+ if (emit && end - start >= 1) {
+ for ( ; start <= end; start++)
if (ASCII_HYPH == *start)
putchar('-');
else