ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211225

[ncurses.git] / man / form_field_new.3x

diff --git a/man/form_field_new.3x b/man/form_field_new.3x
index 1a240d0a7fc3acb400798b4503b21232090eece8..0dcf48b36693ec1eddfb881d05c0a4b3aca0095f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/form_field_new.3x
+++ b/man/form_field_new.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2010,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: form_field_new.3x,v 1.24 2020/10/24 09:09:18 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: form_field_new.3x,v 1.26 2021/12/25 21:41:58 tom Exp $
 .TH form_field_new 3X ""
 .SH NAME
-\fBnew_field\fR,
-\fBdup_field\fR,
-\fBlink_field\fR,
-\fBfree_field\fR \- create and destroy form fields
+\fBnew_field\fP,
+\fBdup_field\fP,
+\fBlink_field\fP,
+\fBfree_field\fP \- create and destroy form fields
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-\fB#include <form.h>\fR
+\fB#include <form.h>\fP
 .sp
 \fBFIELD *new_field(int \fP\fIheight\fP\fB, int \fP\fIwidth\fP\fB,\fP
                  \fBint \fP\fItoprow\fP\fB, int \fP\fIleftcol\fP\fB,\fP
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
 \fBint free_field(FIELD *\fP\fIfield\fP\fB);\fP
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The function \fBnew_field\fR allocates a new field and initializes it from the
+The function \fBnew_field\fP allocates a new field and initializes it from the
 parameters given: height, width, row of upper-left corner, column of upper-left
 corner, number off-screen rows, and number of additional working buffers.
 .PP
-The function \fBdup_field\fR duplicates a field at a new location.
+The function \fBdup_field\fP duplicates a field at a new location.
 Most
 attributes (including current contents, size, validation type, buffer count,
 growth threshold, justification, foreground, background, pad character,
@@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ options, and user pointer) are copied.
 Field status and the field page bit are
 not copied.
 .PP
-The function \fBlink_field\fR acts like \fBdup_field\fR, but the new field
+The function \fBlink_field\fP acts like \fBdup_field\fP, but the new field
 shares buffers with its parent.
 Attribute data is separate.
 .PP
-The function \fBfree_field\fR de-allocates storage associated with a field.
+The function \fBfree_field\fP de-allocates storage associated with a field.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
-The functions \fBnew_field\fR, \fBdup_field\fR, \fBlink_field\fR return
-\fBNULL\fR on error.
+The functions \fBnew_field\fP, \fBdup_field\fP, \fBlink_field\fP return
+\fBNULL\fP on error.
 They set \fBerrno\fP according to their success:
 .TP 5
 .B E_OK
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argument.
 .B E_SYSTEM_ERROR
 System error occurred, e.g., malloc failure.
 .PP
-The function \fBfree_field\fR returns one of the following:
+The function \fBfree_field\fP returns one of the following:
 .TP 5
 .B E_OK
 The routine succeeded.
@@ -91,17 +91,17 @@ Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argument.
 .B E_CONNECTED
 field is connected.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBform\fR(3X).
+\fBcurses\fP(3X), \fBform\fP(3X).
 .SH NOTES
-The header file \fB<form.h>\fR automatically includes the header file
-\fB<curses.h>\fR.
+The header file \fB<form.h>\fP automatically includes the header file
+\fB<curses.h>\fP.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These routines emulate the System V forms library.
 They were not supported on
 Version 7 or BSD versions.
 .PP
 It may be unwise to count on the set of attributes copied by
-\fBdup_field\fR being portable; the System V forms library documents are
+\fBdup_field\fP being portable; the System V forms library documents are
 not very explicit about what gets copied and what does not.
 .SH AUTHORS
 Juergen Pfeifer.