ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240420

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

diff --git a/man/curs_printw.3x b/man/curs_printw.3x
index ea3a6b5857ab20059842c83aa0bc16392d6831b3..282536b363e0a7dc59fa5fb2b41afc24f939e6cc 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_printw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_printw.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.45 2023/12/18 00:03:28 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_printw 3X 2023-12-17 "ncurses 6.4" "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
@@ -96,16 +96,18 @@ upon failure and
 upon success.
 .PP
 In
-.I \%ncurses,
+.IR \%ncurses ,
 failure occurs if the library cannot allocate enough memory for the
 buffer into which the output is formatted,
 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
@@ -125,14 +128,15 @@ 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 the latter is obsolete.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 \*(``TO BE WITHDRAWN\*('',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.
 .bP
 X/Open Curses, Issue 5, Draft 2
 (December 2007) marked \fBvwprintw\fP (along with
-\fBvwscanw\fP and the termcap interface) as withdrawn.
+\fBvwscanw\fP and the \fItermcap\fP interface) as withdrawn.
 After incorporating review comments,
 this became
 X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009).
@@ -160,7 +164,7 @@ In 1991
 and after the C standard was published),
 other developers updated the library,
 using \fI\%stdarg.h\fP internally in 4.4BSD
-.I curses.
+.IR curses .
 Even with this improvement,
 BSD
 .I curses