-These routines return the character, of type \fBchtype\fP, at the current
-position in the named window.
-If any attributes are set for that position,
-their values are OR'ed into the value returned.
-Constants defined in
-\fB<curses.h>\fP can be used with the \fB&\fP (logical AND) operator to
-extract the character or attributes alone.
-.
-.SS Attributes
-The following bit masks may be AND-ed with characters returned by \fBwinch\fP.
-.PP
-.TS
-Lb Lb
-Lb Lx.
-Name Description
-_
-A_CHARTEXT Extract character
-A_ATTRIBUTES Extract attributes
-A_COLOR Extract color pair information
-.TE
+.B \%winch
+returns the
+.I curses
+character,
+including rendering attributes and color pair identifier,
+at the cursor position in the window
+.IR win "."
+Subsection \*(``Video Attributes\*('' of \fB\%attron\fP(3X) explains
+how to extract these data from a
+.IR chtype "."
+\fB\%ncurses\fP(3X) describes the variants of this function.