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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-12-13 08:32:55 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-12-13 18:00:47 +0100
commita011b01af149d299b253c5393a70c73199aabe4f (patch)
treea04998fa6afb30ac28cd2db111bfc4165f2dc31b
parent28fbe5a487f9bf8a279ba1b7f4f465ec68501a42 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a011b01af149d299b253c5393a70c73199aabe4f.tar.xz
doc: pr: formatting corrections
* doc/coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Fix some overzealous uses of @var. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 983a69411..49aa16d32 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2424,14 +2424,14 @@ first line of the input file (not the first line printed, compare the
Optional argument @var{number-separator} is the character appended to
the line number to separate it from the text followed. The default
separator is the TAB character. In a strict sense a TAB is always
-printed with single column output only. The @var{tab}-width varies
-with the @var{tab}-position, e.g., with the left @var{margin} specified
+printed with single column output only. The TAB width varies
+with the TAB position, e.g., with the left @var{margin} specified
by @option{-o} option. With multicolumn output priority is given to
@samp{equal width of output columns} (a @acronym{POSIX} specification).
-The @var{tab}-width is fixed to the value of the first column and does
+The TAB width is fixed to the value of the first column and does
not change with different values of left @var{margin}. That means a
fixed number of spaces is always printed in the place of the
-@var{number-separator tab}. The tabification depends upon the output
+@var{number-separator} TAB. The tabification depends upon the output
position.
@item -N @var{line_number}