ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240420

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

diff --git a/man/curs_printw.3x b/man/curs_printw.3x
index a9fabc5cd958f082f5940c09fee8d86eee9b8431..282536b363e0a7dc59fa5fb2b41afc24f939e6cc 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_printw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_printw.3x
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.51 2024/03/23 20:38:57 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_printw 3X 2024-03-23 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.53 2024/04/20 19:18:18 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_printw 3X 2024-04-20 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
 .ie \n(.g \{\
 .ds `` \(lq
 .ds '' \(rq
@@ -103,9 +103,11 @@ or if the window pointer
 .I win
 is null.
 .PP
-Functions with a \*(``mv\*('' prefix first perform a cursor movement
-using \fB\%wmove\fP,
-and fail if the position is outside the window.
+Functions prefixed with \*(``mv\*('' first perform cursor movement and
+fail if the position
+.RI ( y ,
+.IR x )
+is outside the window boundaries.
 .SH NOTES
 No wide character counterpart functions are defined by the
 \*(``wide\*(''
@@ -116,7 +118,8 @@ To format and write a wide-character string to a
 window,
 consider using \fI\%swprintf\fP(3) and \fB\%waddwstr\fP(3X) or similar.
 .SH PORTABILITY
-X/Open Curses, Issue 4, describes these functions.
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4 describes these functions.
 It specifies no error conditions for them.
 .PP
 .I \%ncurses
@@ -125,7 +128,8 @@ legacy applications.
 However,
 the latter is obsolete.
 .bP
-X/Open Curses, Issue 4, Version 2 (1996),
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4 Version 2 (1996),
 marked \fB\%vwprintw\fP as requiring \fI\%varargs.h\fP and
 \*(``TO BE WITHDRAWN\*('',
 and specified \fB\%vw_printw\fP using the \fI\%stdarg.h\fP interface.