Package: timidity
Version: 2.13.2-16
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The man page's "--force-keysig=n" description contains grammatical
errors and seems needlessly difficult:
man timidity | grep -nA 8 'keysig=n'
375: -H n, --force-keysig=n
376- Specify the number of key signature. MIDI file is performed
377- with transposition to the key of the number of sharp (when n is
378- positive) or flat (when n is negative). Valid values of n are
379- in the interval from -7 to 7. For example, if n is 1, MIDI file
380- with any tonality will be performed transposing to 1 flat (i.e.,
381- F major or D minor). Therefore, it is convenient to use for the
382- accompaniment when practicing a musical instrument by the tonal-
383- ity which is easy to perform.
Suggested revision:
-H n, --force-keysig=n
Specify the key signature. MIDI playback is transposed to
the key with the same number of sharps (when n is positive)
or flats (when n is negative). Valid values for n range
from -7 to 7. For example, if n is 1, MIDI playback would
transpose 1 flat (i.e., F major or D minor).
...attached is a '.diff' for '/usr/share/man/man1/timidity.1.gz'.
Hope this helps...
PS: the last sentence (lines #381-383) was removed because I
cannot parse "...by the tonality which is easy to perform".
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Versions of packages timidity depends on:
ii libartsc0 1.5.8-1 aRts sound system C support librar
ii libasound2 1.0.15-2 ALSA library
ii libaudio2 1.9.1-1 Network Audio System - shared libr
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libflac8 1.2.1-1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjack0 0.103.0-6 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071124-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libogg0 1.1.3-2 Ogg Bitstream Library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-15 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages timidity recommends:
pn freepats <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- timidity.1 2007-12-09 08:48:57.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/timidity.1 2007-12-11 03:00:36.000000000 -0500
@@ -440,14 +440,12 @@
system has support for the X Window System.
.TP
.BI "\-H " n ", \-\-force\-keysig=" n
-Specify the number of key signature. MIDI file is performed with
-transposition to the key of the number of sharp (when \fIn\fP is
-positive) or flat (when \fIn\fP is negative). Valid values of \fIn\fP
-are in the interval from \fB\-7\fP to \fB7\fP. For example, if \fIn\fP
-is \fB1\fP, MIDI file with any tonality will be performed transposing
-to \fB1\fP flat (i.e., F major or D minor). Therefore, it is
-convenient to use for the accompaniment when practicing a musical
-instrument by the tonality which is easy to perform.
+Specify the key signature. MIDI playback is transposed to the key
+with the same number of sharps (when \fIn\fP is
+positive) or flats (when \fIn\fP is negative). Valid values for \fIn\fP
+range from \fB\-7\fP to \fB7\fP. For example, if \fIn\fP
+is \fB1\fP, MIDI playback would transpose \fB1\fP flat
+(i.e., F major or D minor).
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
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