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G. Branden Robinson |
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[groff] 02/11: gpinyin(1): Fix content nit. |
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Mon, 10 May 2021 08:49:00 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 729ad66c10643a16ded7932732662aa0e81909b7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun May 9 12:27:22 2021 +1000
gpinyin(1): Fix content nit.
Hanyu Pinyin is adequate only for Mandarin, not Cantonese, Hokkien, ...
Also set argument literals in bold.
---
contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man | 22 +++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
index 547514c..04fb4b3 100644
--- a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ that facilitates use of Hanyu Pinyin in
.IR groff (@MAN7EXT@)
files.
.
-Pinyin is a method for writing the Chinese language with the Latin
-alphabet.
+Pinyin is a method for writing the Mandarin Chinese language with the
+Latin alphabet.
.
-The Chinese language consists of more than four hundred syllables,
+Mandarin consists of more than four hundred syllables,
each with one of five different tones.
.
In Pinyin,
@@ -84,15 +84,19 @@ can be appended to each syllable.
.P
Each
.I input-file
-is a file name or the hyphen-minus character \[lq]\-\[rq] to indicate
-that the standard input stream should be read.
+is a file name or the character
+.RB \[lq] \- \[rq]
+to indicate that the standard input stream should be read.
.
As usual,
-the argument \[lq]\-\-\[rq] can be used in order to force interpretation
-of all remaining arguments as file names,
+the argument
+.RB \[lq] \-\- \[rq]
+can be used in order to force interpretation of all remaining arguments
+as file names,
even if an
.I input-file
-argument begins with the hyphen-minus character.
+argument begins with a
+.RB \[lq] \- \[rq].
.
.B \-h
and
@@ -147,7 +151,7 @@ or
.SS Syllables
.\" ====================================================================
.
-The phonetic Chinese language comprises about four hundred syllables.
+The Mandarin Chinese language comprises about four hundred syllables.
.
In Pinyin,
each syllable is represented by one to six letters drawn from the
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