#204 [patch] formatting/typo fixes

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

find attached two trivial patches fixing a) some typos and b) a formatting issue.

cu Andreas

[Bruce Korb]

Thank you!

[Bruce Korb]

The acute accent diff is incorrect. In one case, I'm putting line splices at the end of each produced line (by the columns program), and I'm showing what that output looks like. The whole thing is enclosed in "@example" and "@end example" texi doc quotations.

I've fixed the typos and those will be in the next release, thank you.

[Andreas Metzler]

Bruce Korb wrote

The acute accent diff is incorrect

Ok, I thought I had doublechecked this dilgently. Pre-patch the manpage looked like this

$ columns --first='#define TABLE' -c 2 -I4 --line=' ´ <<_EOF_
one
two
three
four
_EOF_
#define TABLE         one   two         three four

And with the patch like this:

$ columns --first='#define TABLE' -c 2 -I4 --line=' \' <<_EOF_
one
two
three
four
_EOF_
#define TABLE \
    one   two \
    three four

The latter looks correct to me.

And it is afaict exactly what can be found in the (html version of the) texinfo manual both with and with and without patch. Well except for the fact that doc/invoke-columns.texi is not regenerated and that doc/Makefile does not even know how to do so.

[Bruce Korb]

Getting backslashes into the output is tricky. The text in the examples has to vary based on output type and then you have to futz with it long enough to figure out which works with which flavor. "Yummy", but thank you for raising the issue. I actually want to stay focused on getting criminals out of our government during the next 6 weeks, so I'll take a gander once I feel better about the state of our "leadership" (so to speak). I'm even putting photography aside. :-O