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[groff] 06/32: lookbib(1): Fix style and markup nits.
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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 06/32: lookbib(1): Fix style and markup nits. |
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Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:31:10 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 43c337916d4acf520c7b51fcf7c55b2e85438a5e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 14 17:56:00 2023 -0500
lookbib(1): Fix style and markup nits.
* Consistently refer to I/O streams.
* Fix word ordering.
* Break lines after commas and before multi-word parentheticals.
---
src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1.man | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1.man b/src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1.man
index aab5a048b..5d43bbbd2 100644
--- a/src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1.man
+++ b/src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1.man
@@ -77,13 +77,14 @@
.\" ====================================================================
.
.I @g@lookbib
-prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not
+writes a prompt to the standard error stream
+(unless the standard input stream is not
a terminal),
reads from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords,
-searches the bibliographic databases
+searches each bibliographic database
.I file
-\&.\|.\|.\& for references containing those keywords,
-prints any references found on the standard output,
+for references containing those keywords,
+writes any references found to the standard output stream,
and repeats this process until the end of input.
.
For each database
@@ -93,7 +94,8 @@ if an index
.RI file @INDEX_SUFFIX@
created by
.MR @g@indxbib @MAN1EXT@
-exists, then it will be searched instead;
+exists,
+then it will be searched instead;
each index can cover multiple databases.
.
.
@@ -120,12 +122,11 @@ ignore the contents of fields whose names are in
.
.TP
.BI \-t\~ n
-Only require the first
+Require only the first
.I n
characters of keys to be given.
.
-Initially,
-.I n
+The default
is\~6.
.
.
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