Bug 9511

Summary:	Garbled macro invocation in bitmap.1x manual page.
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Eric S. Raymond <esr>
Component:	App/other	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Eric S. Raymond 2007-01-02 07:55:10 UTC

Unknown or invalid macro.  That is, one that does not fit in the
macro set that the man page seems to be using.  This is a serious
error; it often means part of your text is being lost or rendered
incorrectly.

--- bitmap.1x-orig	2006-12-18 10:11:16.000000000 -0500
+++ bitmap.1x	2006-12-18 10:12:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -87,24 +87,19 @@
 Grid tolerance.  If the square dimensions fall below the specified 
 value, grid will be automatically turned off.
 .TP 4
-.B \-grid, +grid
-./&.B \-grid\fI on/off\fP
+.B \-grid, +grid, \-grid\fI on/off\fP
 Turns on or off the grid lines.
 .TP 4
-.B \-axes, +axes
-./&./&.B \-axes\fI on/off\fP
+.B \-axes, +axes, \-axes\fI on/off\fP
 Turns on or off the major axes.
 .TP 4
-.B \-dashed, +dashed
-./&.B \-dashed\fI on/off\fP
+.B \-dashed, +dashed, \-dashed\fI on/off\fP
 Turns on or off dashing for the frame and grid lines.
 .TP 4
-.B \-stippled, +stippled 
-./&.B \-stippled\fI on/off\fP
+.B \-stippled, +stippled, \-stippled\fI on/off\fP
 Turns on or off stippling of highlighted squares.
 .TP 4
-.B \-proportional, +proportional\fI 
-./&.B \-proportional\fI on/off\fP
+.B \-proportional, +proportional, \-proportional\fI on/off\fP
 Turns proportional mode on or off.  If proportional mode is on, 
 square width is equal to square height.  If proportional mode is
 off,\fI bitmap\fP will use the smaller square dimension, if they

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2007-01-02 14:34:49 UTC

Thanks for the patch - committed to git master:

commit ad55b1108f61ae0e3643bdffe430c71973d3d7ae
Author: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 2 14:34:17 2007 -0800

    Bug 9511: Garbled macro invocation in bitmap.1x manual page.
    
    <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9511>

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