- <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> is called. If <EM>line</EM> is positive, a line
- is removed from the top of <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>; if <EM>line</EM> is negative, a
- line is removed from the bottom. When this is done inside
- <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>, the routine <STRONG>init</STRONG> (supplied by the user) is called
- with two arguments: a window pointer to the one-line win-
- dow that has been allocated and an integer with the number
- of columns in the window. Inside this initialization rou-
- tine, the integer variables <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLS</STRONG> (defined in
- <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>) are not guaranteed to be accurate and <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>
- or <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG> must not be called. It is allowable to call
- <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> during the initialization routine.
+ <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> is called, to prepare these initial ac-
+ tions:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <EM>line</EM> is positive, a line is removed from the top of
+ <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> if <EM>line</EM> is negative, a line is removed from the bot-
+ tom.
+
+ When the resulting initialization is done inside <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>,
+ the routine <STRONG>init</STRONG> (supplied by the user) is called with two
+ arguments:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a window pointer to the one-line window that has been
+ allocated and
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> an integer with the number of columns in the window.
+
+ Inside this initialization routine, the integer variables
+ <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLS</STRONG> (defined in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>) are not guaranteed
+ to be accurate and <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> or <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG> must not be
+ called. It is allowable to call <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> during the
+ initialization routine.