In emacs.1 and etags.1 there are a few unescaped minus signs; also two
occurrences of long dashes that should be represented as such, IMHO.
Please consider applying this trivial patch.
In GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2007-04-24 on tzotzolana, modified for gNewSense
(Unofficial gNewSense emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20070424-gns1)
Index: etc/emacs.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/etc/emacs.1,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 emacs.1
--- etc/emacs.1 14 Apr 2007 02:34:16 -0000 1.18
+++ etc/emacs.1 24 Apr 2007 12:31:30 -0000
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
.TP 8
.BI \-batch
Edit in batch mode. The editor will send messages to stderr. This
-option must be the first in the argument list. You must use -l and -f
+option must be the first in the argument list. You must use \-l and \-f
options to specify files to execute and functions to call.
.TP
.B \-kill
@@ -399,12 +399,12 @@
T}
.\" START DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X MENUS
CTRL-SHIFT-left T{
-X buffer menu--hold the buttons and keys
+X buffer menu\[em]hold the buttons and keys
down, wait for menu to appear, select
buffer, and release. Move mouse out of
menu and release to cancel.
T}
-CTRL-SHIFT-middle X help menu--pop up index card menu for Emacs help.
+CTRL-SHIFT-middle X help menu\[em]pop up index card menu for Emacs help.
.\" STOP DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X MENUS
CTRL-SHIFT-right T{
Select window with mouse, and delete all
Index: etc/etags.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/etc/etags.1,v
retrieving revision 3.26
diff -u -r3.26 etags.1
--- etc/etags.1 5 Feb 2007 21:36:34 -0000 3.26
+++ etc/etags.1 24 Apr 2007 12:31:31 -0000
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
.br
A regexp can be preceded by {\fIlang\fP}, thus restricting it to match
-lines of files of the specified language. Use \fBetags --help\fP to obtain
+lines of files of the specified language. Use \fBetags \-\-help\fP to obtain
a list of the recognised languages. This feature is particularly useful inside
\fBregex files\fP. A regex file contains one regex per line. Empty lines,
and those lines beginning with space or tab are ignored. Lines beginning
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