ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190518

[ncurses.git] / man / tic.1m

diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m
index c3322e6703e2ea5e8834622280a5889a2f4ca1f7..a3b169173d5c1ac7530adcb422599b64c5b803cc 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tic.1m
+++ b/man/tic.1m
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.65 2017/07/08 19:48:37 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.68 2019/05/18 21:59:56 tom Exp $
 .TH @TIC@ 1M ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .de bP
-.IP \(bu 4
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
 ..
 .SH NAME
 \fB@TIC@\fR \- the \fIterminfo\fR entry-description compiler
@@ -171,8 +172,8 @@ the string will not convert completely.
 .RE
 .TP
 \fB\-c\fR
-tells \fB@TIC@\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, including syntax problems and
-bad use links.
+tells \fB@TIC@\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors,
+including syntax problems and bad use-links.
 If you specify \fB\-C\fR (\fB\-I\fR) with this option, the code
 will print warnings about entries which, after use resolution, are more than
 1023 (4096) bytes long.
@@ -204,7 +205,8 @@ the list, the entry will be written or translated as normal.
 Otherwise no output will be generated for it.
 The option value is interpreted as a file containing the list if it
 contains a '/'.
-(Note: depending on how tic was compiled, this option may require \fB\-I\fR or \fB\-C\fR.)
+(Note: depending on how @TIC@ was compiled,
+this option may require \fB\-I\fR or \fB\-C\fR.)
 .TP
 \fB\-f\fR
 Display complex terminfo strings which contain if/then/else/endif expressions
@@ -272,7 +274,8 @@ versions of terminfo like those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that do not support
 the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x
 that have their own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI.
 Available subsets
-are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; see \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for details.
+are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX";
+see \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for details.
 .TP
 \fB\-r\fR
 Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining tc capabilities) even
@@ -355,7 +358,7 @@ The parameter is optional.
 If it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
 .TP
 \fB\-x\fR
-Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined.
+Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined (see \fBuser_caps(\*n)\fP).
 That is, if you supply a capability name which \fB@TIC@\fP does not recognize,
 it will infer its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and
 make an extended table entry for that.
@@ -397,7 +400,8 @@ The name field cannot
 exceed 512 bytes.
 Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias length
 (32 characters on systems with long filenames, 14 characters otherwise)
-will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message will be printed.
+will be truncated to the maximum alias length
+and a warning message will be printed.
 .SH COMPATIBILITY
 There is some evidence that historic \fB@TIC@\fR implementations treated
 description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or
@@ -463,6 +467,7 @@ Compiled terminal description database.
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
 \fBterm\fR(\*n).
 \fBterminfo\fR(\*n).
+\fBuser_caps\fR(\*n).
 .PP
 This describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).