bug#13280: od 8.19: inappropriate formatting of the man pages

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/27/2012 12:53 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Le 27 déc. 2012 à 12:42, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> > Yes the grouping of that info wasn't optimum.
> > I've adjusted things a bit in the attached patch,
> > and the result can be seen in the attached pdf generated with:
> >   man -t man/od.1 | ps2pdf - > od.pdf
> > Note since people like examples, as part of this I've added
> > an EXAMPLES section, that shows how to output a hexdump with od.
>
>
> Very nice!
>
> I notice that instead of the usual:
>
>   Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
>
> there is:
>
>   All arguments to long options are mandatory for short options.
>
> which is not right since:
>
> −w[BYTES], −−width[=BYTES]
>    output BYTES bytes per output line. 32 is implied when BYTES is not specified

Wow good catch.
OK pushed with that change and Bernhard's bug reference suggestion.

thanks,
Pádraig.