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[groff] 02/11: gpinyin(1): Fix content nit.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 02/11: gpinyin(1): Fix content nit.
Date: 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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