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| -rw-r--r-- | eqn.7 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mdoc.7 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | roff.7 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tbl.7 | 2 |
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ partial (partial differential), inf (infinity), >> (much greater), << The following control statements are available: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Cm define -Replace all occurances of a key with a value. +Replace all occurrences of a key with a value. Its syntax is as follows: .Pp .D1 define Ar key cvalc @@ -2302,7 +2302,7 @@ line itself; on following lines, only the .Sx \&Ta macro can be used to delimit cells, and .Sx \&Ta -is only recognized as a macro when called by other macros, +is only recognised as a macro when called by other macros, not as the first macro on a line. .Pp Note that quoted strings may span tab-delimited cells on an @@ -3094,7 +3094,7 @@ Newer groff and mandoc print and the arguments. .It .Sx \&Bl Fl column -does not recognize trailing punctuation characters when they immediately +does not recognise trailing punctuation characters when they immediately precede tabulator characters, but treats them as normal text and outputs a space before them. .It @@ -3206,7 +3206,7 @@ The following features are unimplemented in mandoc: .Fl offset Ar center and .Fl offset Ar right . -Groff does not implement centered and flush-right rendering either, +Groff does not implement centred and flush-right rendering either, but produces large indentations. .It The @@ -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 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ macro tags, whose precise syntax is documented in Tables consist of a series of options on a single line, followed by the table layout, followed by data. .Pp -For example, the following creates a boxed table with digits centered in +For example, the following creates a boxed table with digits centred in the cells. .Bd -literal -offset indent \&.TS |