Re: Bug in Coreutil manual

[Jim Meyering]

<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Happy new year and thank you for the continuing excellent work and
> support of CoreUtil
>
> Can i let you know of a minor glitch in the current CoreUtil.pdf manual?
>
> Page 4 and 5
>
> The definitions of MiB etc have only the first digit of the exponent shown
> as a subscript. The second digit is inadvertently non superscripted.
>
> Hence 2^(20) is shown as 2^(2)0.
>
> I assume this is a simple formatting glitch: somewhere, after the symbol for
> superscripting, someone forgot to bracket the two symbols together.

Thank you for spotting and reporting that.
I've corrected all of those and added a rule
to help avoid any similar formatting errors:

Here's the first change:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=bad0510aea5e

Here's the ChangeLog entry for the two change sets:

2007-12-31  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * doc/coreutils.texi (Block size): Put braces around multi-digit
        exponents.  Reported by Darrel Francis.

        Add a syntax check, so this doesn't recur.  Reorganize existing checks.
        * doc/Makefile.am (sc-exponent-grouping):
        (syntax_checks): New variable.
        (sc-avoid-io, sc-avoid-non-zero, sc-avoid-timezone):
        (sc-avoid-zeroes, sc-use-small-caps-NUL): New rules, extracted
        from check-texinfo.
        (check-texinfo): Depend on $(syntax_checks).