ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190406

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

diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m
index 53a96dd764d0561cee40d45b24db5f1a9eaa9446..e0bf36fda7fa5ccf9da5c4b6e389b94abcc2c860 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tic.1m
+++ b/man/tic.1m
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 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 1.62 2016/10/01 17:14:50 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.67 2018/05/19 21:07:46 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
@@ -307,8 +310,10 @@ reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits.
 \fB\-v\fR\fIn\fR
 specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error trace
 information showing \fB@TIC@\fR's progress.
+.IP
 The optional parameter \fIn\fR is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive,
 indicating the desired level of detail of information.
+If ncurses is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is ignored.
 If \fIn\fR is omitted, the default level is 1.
 If \fIn\fR is specified and greater than 1, the level of
 detail is increased.
@@ -343,6 +348,9 @@ If the debug level \fIn\fR is not given, it is taken to be one.
 \fB\-W\fR
 By itself, the \fB\-w\fP option will not force long strings to be wrapped.
 Use the \fB\-W\fP option to do this.
+.IP
+If you specify both \fB\-f\fP and \fB\-W\fP options,
+the latter is ignored when \fB\-f\fP has already split the line.
 .TP
 \fB\-w\fR\fIn\fR
 specifies the width of the output.
@@ -392,7 +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