Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > there is a typo (sort of) in the manpage. concerning the '-Z' option > it reads: > > -Z Do not postprocess the output of troff that is normally called > automatically by groff. This will print the intermediate output > to standard output; see groff_out(5). > > the first sentence is broken AFAIKS.
Well, maybe `broken' is too strong; the meaning is fairly obvious, but grammatically, I agree that it doesn't really make sense. > maybe it could read, for instance: > > "Do not postprocess the output of troff (as is normally done > automatically). This will print ..." I favour this change of wording; it corrects the grammatical sense, while preserving the originally intended meaning, whereas... > or, alternatively: > > "Do not call any postprocessors (by default, grops(1) is otherwise > called automatically) and print the intermediate output to stdout, > see groff_out(5)." This isn't strictly accurate, for the postprocessor invoked depends on any `-T' option specified, and therefore may *not* be grops(1); to suggest that grops(1) is the default, in the context of a description of the `-Z' option could be misleading, for the `-T' and `-Z' options are mutually independent. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
