ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210109

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.head

diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head
index 6b86252d4fd6fb1719a1fd0aa4739f234928a3a9..f6a31c8055dc679e93262e241f0140f37ec9e04c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.head
+++ b/man/terminfo.head
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 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 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.31 2017/03/06 09:58:14 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.39 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
 .TH terminfo 5 "" "" "File Formats"
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
@@ -35,7 +36,22 @@
 .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
 .el       .ds '' ''
 .de bP
-.IP \(bu 4
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
+..
+.de NS
+.ie n  .sp
+.el    .sp .5
+.ie n  .in +4
+.el    .in +2
+.nf
+.ft C                  \" Courier
+..
+.de NE
+.fi
+.ft R
+.ie n  .in -4
+.el    .in -2
 ..
 .SH NAME
 terminfo \- terminal capability data base
@@ -43,16 +59,23 @@ terminfo \- terminal capability data base
 \*d/*/*
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Terminfo
-is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as
+is a data base describing terminals,
+used by screen-oriented programs such as
 \fBnvi\fR(1),
-\fBrogue\fR(1)
-and libraries such as
-\fBcurses\fR(3X).
+\fBlynx\fR(1),
+\fBmutt\fR(1),
+and other curses applications,
+using high-level calls to libraries such as \fBcurses\fR(3X).
+It is also used via low-level calls by non-curses applications
+which may be screen-oriented (such as \fB@CLEAR@\fP(1))
+or non-screen (such as \fB@TABS@\fP(1)).
+.PP
 .I Terminfo
 describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they
 have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by
 specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
-This describes \fBncurses\fR
+.PP
+This manual describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
 .SS Terminfo Entry Syntax
 .PP
@@ -109,7 +132,7 @@ have a root name, thus \*(``hp2621\*(''.
 This name should not contain hyphens.
 Modes that the hardware can be in, or user preferences, should
 be indicated by appending a hyphen and a mode suffix.
-Thus, a vt100 in 132 column mode would be vt100\-w.
+Thus, a vt100 in 132-column mode would be vt100\-w.
 The following suffixes should be used where possible:
 .PP
 .TS
@@ -132,7 +155,7 @@ l l l.
 \-w    Wide mode (> 80 columns, usually 132)   vt100\-w
 .TE
 .PP
-For more on terminal naming conventions, see the \fBterm(7)\fR manual page.
+For more on terminal naming conventions, see the \fBterm\fP(7) manual page.
 .SS Terminfo Capabilities Syntax
 .PP
 The terminfo entry consists of several \fIcapabilities\fP,