Hello,

attaching patch fixing a few groffer manpage typos.

Regards,
Jan
diff -uNPrp groff-current/contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.man groff-current.fixes/contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.man
--- groff-current/contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.man	2010-06-02 16:20:56.000000000 +0200
+++ groff-current.fixes/contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.man	2011-02-07 12:45:32.363905597 +0100
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ All other arguments are ignored.
 .
 .TP
 .OP -h\fR|\fR--help
-Print a helping information with a short explanation of option sto
+Print help information with a short explanation of option sto
 standard output.
 .
 .
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ Choose a viewer program for
 This can be a file name or a program to be searched in
 .Env_var $PATH .
 .
-Common Postscript viewers inlude
+Common Postscript viewers include
 .BR \%gv (1),
 .BR \%ghostview (1),
 and
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ Choose a text pager for mode
 .IR tty .
 The standard pager is
 .BR less (1).
-This option is eqivalent to
+This option is equivalent to
 .I man
 option
 .BR --pager=prog .
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ is a comma-separated list.
 .
 .TP
 .B --where
-Eqivalent to
+Equivalent to
 .B --location .
 .
 .
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ arguments is ignored.
 .
 The \f[CR]GNU\f[] behavior to recognize options even when mixed with
 .I \%filespec
-arguments is used througout.
+arguments is used throughout.
 .
 But, as usual, the double minus argument
 .B --
@@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ You can change this automatic behavior b
 .
 .P
 Known viewers for the graphical display modes and their standard
-\%\f[CR]X\~Window\f[] viewer progams are
+\%\f[CR]X\~Window\f[] viewer programs are
 .
 .Topic
 in a PDF viewer
@@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ in a dvi viewer program
 .P
 The
 .I \%pdf\~mode
-has a major advantage \[em] it is the only graphical diplay mode that
+has a major advantage \[em] it is the only graphical display mode that
 allows to search for text within the viewer; this can be a really
 important feature.
 .
@@ -3537,7 +3537,7 @@ The quotes around
 .nh
 .I \[cq]troff(1)\[cq]
 .hy
-are necessary because the paranthesis are special shell characters;
+are necessary because the parenthesis are special shell characters;
 escaping them with a backslash character
 .I \[rs](
 and
diff -uNPrp groff-current/contrib/groffer/shell/groffer.man groff-current.fixes/contrib/groffer/shell/groffer.man
--- groff-current/contrib/groffer/shell/groffer.man	2010-06-02 16:20:56.000000000 +0200
+++ groff-current.fixes/contrib/groffer/shell/groffer.man	2011-02-07 12:47:40.195832055 +0100
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ All other arguments are ignored.
 .
 .TP
 .OP -h\fR|\fR--help
-Print a helping information with a short explanation of option sto
+Print help information with a short explanation of option sto
 standard output.
 .
 .
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ Choose a viewer program for
 This can be a file name or a program to be searched in
 .Env_var $PATH .
 .
-Common Postscript viewers inlude
+Common Postscript viewers include
 .BR \%gv (1),
 .BR \%ghostview (1),
 and
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ Choose a text pager for mode
 .IR tty .
 The standard pager is
 .BR less (1).
-This option is eqivalent to
+This option is equivalent to
 .I man
 option
 .BR --pager=prog .
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ is a comma-separated list.
 .
 .TP
 .B --where
-Eqivalent to
+Equivalent to
 .B --location .
 .
 .
@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ arguments is ignored.
 .
 The \f[CR]GNU\f[] behavior to recognize options even when mixed with
 .I \%filespec
-arguments is used througout.
+arguments is used throughout.
 .
 But, as usual, the double minus argument
 .B --
@@ -2221,7 +2221,7 @@ You can change this automatic behavior b
 .
 .P
 Known viewers for the graphical display modes and their standard
-\%\f[CR]X\~Window\f[] viewer progams are
+\%\f[CR]X\~Window\f[] viewer programs are
 .
 .Topic
 in a PDF viewer
@@ -2264,7 +2264,7 @@ in a dvi viewer program
 .P
 The
 .I \%pdf\~mode
-has a major advantage \[em] it is the only graphical diplay mode that
+has a major advantage \[em] it is the only graphical display mode that
 allows to search for text within the viewer; this can be a really
 important feature.
 .
@@ -3640,7 +3640,7 @@ The quotes around
 .nh
 .I \[cq]troff(1)\[cq]
 .hy
-are necessary because the paranthesis are special shell characters;
+are necessary because the parenthesis are special shell characters;
 escaping them with a backslash character
 .I \[rs](
 and
@@ -3781,7 +3781,7 @@ Both scripts are compatible with both
 \%\f[CR]POSIX\fP compatibility refers to
 \%\f[CR]IEEE\~P1003.2/D11.2\fP of September 1991, a very early
 version of the \%\f[CR]POSIX\fP standard that is still freely
-available in the internet at
+available on the Internet at
 .UR http://\:www.funet.fi/\:pub/\:doc/\:posix/\:p1003.2/\:d11.2/\:all
 \%POSIX\~P1003.2\~draft\~11.2
 .UE .
diff -uNPrp groff-current/contrib/groffer/shell/README_SH groff-current.fixes/contrib/groffer/shell/README_SH
--- groff-current/contrib/groffer/shell/README_SH	2009-01-05 21:10:40.000000000 +0100
+++ groff-current.fixes/contrib/groffer/shell/README_SH	2011-02-07 12:47:32.891950114 +0100
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ function obj_from_output().
 Function Definitions in `groffer2.sh'
 
 Each funtion in groffer2.sh has a description that starts with the
-function name and symbols for its arguments in paranthesis `()'.  Each
+function name and symbols for its arguments in parenthesis `()'.  Each
 `<>' construction gives an argument name that just gives a hint on
 what the argument is meant to be; these argument names are otherwise
 irrelevant.  The `>' sign can be followed by another character that
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ The `groffer' shell scripts are compatib
 POSIX shell and utilities.  Care was taken to restrict the programming
 technics used here in order to achieve POSIX compatibility as far back
 as POSIX P1003.2 Draft 11.2 of September 1991.  This draft is
-available at http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/posix/p1003.2/d11.2 in the
-internet.
+available at http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/posix/p1003.2/d11.2 on the
+Internet.
 
 The POSIX draft does not include `local' variables for functions.  So
 this concept was replaced by global variables with a prefix that
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