ncurses 6.5 - patch 20240504

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

diff --git a/man/form.3x b/man/form.3x
index 15feb311bca37feb17567999192f243bed176189..2f8f884861fae16e5689a2107b94dddc93fea567 100644 (file)
--- a/man/form.3x
+++ b/man/form.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2021,2023 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -28,20 +28,30 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.42 2023/07/01 15:46:10 tom Exp $
-.TH form 3X 2023-07-01 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
-.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
-.el       .ds `` ``
-.ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
-.el       .ds '' ''
+.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.54 2024/03/16 15:35:01 tom Exp $
+.TH form 3X 2024-03-16 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
+.ie \n(.g \{\
+.ds `` \(lq
+.ds '' \(rq
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.ie t .ds `` ``
+.el   .ds `` ""
+.ie t .ds '' ''
+.el   .ds '' ""
+.\}
+.
 .de bP
 .ie n  .IP \(bu 4
 .el    .IP \(bu 2
 ..
 .SH NAME
-\fBform\fP \- curses extension for programming forms
+\fBform\fP \-
+curses extension for programming forms
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-\fB#include <form.h>\fP
+.nf
+\fB#include <form.h>
+.fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The \fBform\fP library provides terminal-independent facilities for composing
 form screens on character-cell terminals.
@@ -63,7 +73,7 @@ so that input/output processing will work.
 A curses initialization routine such as \fBinitscr\fP must be called
 before using any of these functions.
 .
-.SS Current Default Values for Field Attributes
+.SS "Current Default Values for Field Attributes"
 .
 The \fBform\fP library maintains a default value for field attributes.
 You
@@ -74,13 +84,13 @@ Changing this default with a
 \fBset_\fP function affects future field creations, but does not change the
 rendering of fields already created.
 .
-.SS Routine Name Index
+.SS "Routine Name Index"
 .
 The following table lists each \fBform\fP routine and the name of
 the manual page on which it is described.
 Routines flagged with \*(``*\*(''
-are ncurses-specific, not present in SVr4.
-.
+are \fI\%ncurses\fP-specific, not present in SVr4.
+.PP
 .TS
 l l
 l l .
@@ -205,39 +215,32 @@ System error occurred (see \fBerrno\fP(3)).
 .B E_UNKNOWN_COMMAND
 The form driver code saw an unknown request code.
 .SH NOTES
-The header file \fB<form.h>\fP automatically includes the header files
-\fB<curses.h>\fP and \fB<eti.h>\fP.
-.PP
-In your library list, libform.a should be before libncurses.a; that is,
-you want to say \*(``\-lform \-lncurses\*('', not the other way around
-(which would give you a link error when using static libraries).
+The header file \fI\%form.h\fP itself includes \fI\%curses.h\fP.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These routines emulate the System V forms library.
 They were not supported on
 Version 7 or BSD versions.
 .PP
-The menu facility was documented in SVr4.2 in
-\fICharacter User Interface Programming (UNIX SVR4.2)\fP.
+A form facility was documented in SVr4.2's
+\fICharacter User Interface Programming\fP document.
 .PP
 It is not part of X/Open Curses.
 .PP
-Aside from ncurses, there are few implementations:
+Aside from \fI\%ncurses\fP, there are few implementations:
 .bP
 systems based on SVr4 source code, e.g., Solaris.
 .bP
 NetBSD curses.
 .PP
-A few functions in this implementation are extensions added for ncurses,
+A few functions in this implementation are extensions added for
+\fI\%ncurses\fP,
 but not provided by other implementations, e.g.,
 \fBform_driver_w\fP,
 \fBunfocus_current_field\fP.
 .SH AUTHORS
 Juergen Pfeifer.
-Manual pages and adaptation for ncurses by Eric
+Manual pages and adaptation for \fI\%ncurses\fP by Eric
 S. Raymond.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBcurses\fP(3X) and related pages whose names begin \*(``form_\*('' for detailed
-descriptions of the entry points.
-.PP
-This describes \fBncurses\fP
-version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
+\fBcurses\fP(3X) and related pages whose names begin \*(``form_\*('' for
+detailed descriptions of the entry points.