[libexif-cvs] exif exif.1,1.7,1.8

[Dan F. <dfa...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/libexif/exif
In directory sc8-pr-cvs6.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv30786

Modified Files:
	exif.1 
Log Message:
Man page updates from Benno Schulenberg.


Index: exif.1
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RCS file: /cvsroot/libexif/exif/exif.1,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -p -d -r1.7 -r1.8
--- exif.1	1 Feb 2008 22:50:33 -0000	1.7
+++ exif.1	8 Feb 2008 23:44:10 -0000	1.8
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 .\" Modified 2002-09-08 by thomas
 .\" Modified 2005-03-23 by hun
 .\" Modified 2008-01-24 by dfandrich
+.\" Modified 2008-02-05 by Benno Schulenberg
 .\"
-.TH exif 1 "2008-02-01" "" "libexif command line frontend"
+.TH exif 1 "2008-02-05" "" "libexif command line frontend"
 .SH "NAME"
 exif \- shows EXIF information in JPEG files
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ is a small command-line utility to show 
 .PP
 Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The
 .B "exif"
-command line utility allows you to read EXIF information from and write EXIF information to those files.
+command-line utility allows you to read EXIF information from and write EXIF information to those files.
 .B "exif"
 internally uses the
 .B "libexif"
@@ -39,23 +40,24 @@ file is not readable or does not contain
 .SH "OPTIONS"
 .TP
 .BI "\-v, \-\-version"
-Display the exif version number
+Display the exif version number.
 .TP
 .BI "\-i, \-\-ids"
-Show ID numbers instead of tag names
+Show ID numbers instead of tag names.
 .TP
-.BI "\-t, \-\-tag=" "tag"
-Select only the given EXIF
-.I "tag"
-which is the textual short tag name, tag title, or numeric tag number
+.BI "\-t, \-\-tag=" "TAG"
+Select only this
+.IR "TAG" .
+.I "TAG"
+is the tag title, the short tag name, or the tag number
 (hexadecimal numbers are prefixed with 0x), from the IFD specified
-with \-\-ifd.  The tag title is dependent on the current locale, whereas the
+with \-\-ifd.  The tag title is dependent on the current locale, whereas
 name and number are locale-independent.
 .TP
 .BI "\-\-ifd=" "IFD"
-Select
-.I "IFD"
-where valid IFDs are "0", "1", "EXIF", "GPS", and "Interoperability".
+Select a tag from this
+.IR "IFD" .
+Valid IFDs are "0", "1", "EXIF", "GPS", and "Interoperability".
 Defaults to "0".
 .TP
 .BI "\-l, \-\-list\-tags"
@@ -63,60 +65,62 @@ List all known EXIF tags.  A JPEG file w
 be given to use this option, but its contents are ignored.
 .TP
 .BI "\-|, \-\-show\-mnote"
-Show contents of tag MakerNote. The contents of this tag is nonstandard (and
-often undocumented) and may therefore not be recognized, or if it is
-recognized it may not be necessarily correctly interpreted.
+Show the contents of the MakerNote tag.  The contents of this tag are nonstandard
+(and often undocumented) and may therefore not be recognized, or if they are
+recognized they may not necessarily be interpreted correctly.
 .TP
 .BI "\-\-remove"
-Remove tag or entire IFD (if no tag is specified).
+Remove the tag or (if no tag is specified) the entire IFD.
 .TP
 .BI "\-s, \-\-show\-description"
 Show description of tag.  The \-\-tag option must also be given.
 .TP
 .BI "\-e, \-\-extract\-thumbnail"
-Extract thumbnail, writing the thumbnail image to the file specified
+Extract the thumbnail, writing the thumbnail image to the file specified
 with \-\-output.
 .TP
 .BI "\-r, \-\-remove\-thumbnail"
-Remove thumbnail from image, writing the new image to the file specified
+Remove the thumbnail from the image, writing the new image to the file specified
 with \-\-output.
 .TP
 .BI "-n, \-\-insert\-thumbnail=" "FILE"
 Insert
 .I "FILE"
-as thumbnail.  No attempt is made to ensure that the contents of "FILE" is
-in a valid thumbnail format.
+as thumbnail.  No attempt is made to ensure that the contents of
+.I "FILE"
+are in a valid thumbnail format.
 .TP
 .BI "\-o, \-\-output=" "FILE"
 Write output image to
 .IR "FILE" .
 If this option is not given and an image file must be written, the
-name used is the same as the input file with a suffix ".modified.jpeg".
+name used is the same as the input file with the suffix ".modified.jpeg".
 .TP
 .BI "\-\-set\-value=" "VALUE"
-Set the data for the tag specified with \-\-tag and \-\-ifd to "VALUE".
+Set the data for the tag specified with \-\-tag and \-\-ifd to
+.IR "VALUE" .
 Compound values consisting of multiple components are separated with
 spaces.
 .TP
 .BI "\-m, \-\-machine\-readable"
-Output in machine-readable (tab delimited) format
+Produce output in a machine-readable (tab-delimited) format.
 The \-\-xml-output and \-\-machine\-readable options are mutually exclusive.
 .TP
 .BI "\-x, \-\-xml-output"
-Output in an XML format (when possible).
+Produce output in an XML format (when possible).
 The \-\-xml-output and \-\-machine\-readable options are mutually exclusive.
 .TP
 .BI "\-d, \-\-debug"
-Show debugging messages
+Show debugging messages.
 .SS "Help options"
 .TP
 .BI "\-?, \-\-help"
-Show help message
+Show help message.
 .TP
 .BI "\-\-usage"
-Display brief usage message
+Display brief usage message.
 .SH "AUTHOR"
-Written by Lutz Mueller <lu...@us...>
+Written by Lutz Mueller <lu...@us...>.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .UR "http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/libexif"
 .BR "http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/libexif"