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diff --git a/man/woman.texi b/man/woman.texi index 4290f2ae20..1262d3d5fe 100644 --- a/man/woman.texi +++ b/man/woman.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- -@c $Id: woman.texi,v 1.14 2003/09/01 15:45:46 miles Exp $ +@c $Id: woman.texi,v 1.15 2003/09/30 20:42:15 rms Exp $ @c %**start of header @setfilename ../info/woman @settitle WoMan: Browse Unix Manual Pages ``W.O. (without) Man'' @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ requests. The distinction between @code{TROFF} and @code{NROFF} is that @code{TROFF} was designed to drive a phototypesetter whereas -@code{NROFF} was designed to produce essentially @sc{ascii} output for a +@code{NROFF} was designed to produce essentially @acronym{ASCII} output for a character-based device similar to a teletypewriter (usually abbreviated to ``teletype'' or ``tty''). Hence, @code{TROFF} supports much finer control over output positioning than does @code{NROFF} and can be seen @@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ WoMan is running byte code whereas most of the formatting done by @code{man} uses machine code, and is a testimony to the quality of the Emacs Lisp system. -@code{NROFF} simulates non-@sc{ascii} characters by using one or more -@sc{ascii} characters. WoMan should be able to do much better than +@code{NROFF} simulates non-@acronym{ASCII} characters by using one or more +@acronym{ASCII} characters. WoMan should be able to do much better than this. I have recently begun to add support for WoMan to use more of the characters in its default font and to use a symbol font, and it is an aspect that I intend to develop further in the near future. It should @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ primarily used internally by WoMan. Emacs provides an interface to detect automatically the format of a file and decode it when it is visited. It is used primarily by the facilities for editing rich (i.e.@: formatted) text, as a way to store -formatting information transparently as @sc{ascii} markup. WoMan can in +formatting information transparently as @acronym{ASCII} markup. WoMan can in principle use this interface, but it must be configured explicitly. This use of WoMan does not seem to be particularly advantageous, so it @@ -1388,9 +1388,9 @@ ignored. Default is @code{t}. This gives the standard @code{ROFF} behavior. If @code{nil} then they are left in the buffer, which may aid debugging. @item woman-preserve-ascii -A boolean value. If non-@code{nil} then preserve @sc{ascii} characters in the -WoMan buffer. Otherwise, non-@sc{ascii} characters (that display as -@sc{ascii}) may remain, which is irrelevant unless the buffer is to be +A boolean value. If non-@code{nil} then preserve @acronym{ASCII} characters in the +WoMan buffer. Otherwise, non-@acronym{ASCII} characters (that display as +@acronym{ASCII}) may remain, which is irrelevant unless the buffer is to be saved to a file. Default is @code{nil}. @item woman-emulation @@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@ This section currently applies @emph{only} to Microsoft Windows. WoMan provides partial experimental support for special symbols, initially only for MS-Windows and only for MS-Windows fonts. This -includes both non-@sc{ascii} characters from the main text font and use +includes both non-@acronym{ASCII} characters from the main text font and use of a separate symbol font. Later, support will be added for other font types (e.g.@: @code{bdf} fonts) and for the X Window System. In Emacs 20.7, the current support works partially under Windows 9x but may not @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ work on any other platform. @vtable @code @item woman-use-extended-font -A boolean value. If non-@code{nil} then WoMan may use non-@sc{ascii} characters +A boolean value. If non-@code{nil} then WoMan may use non-@acronym{ASCII} characters from the default font. Default is @code{t}. @item woman-use-symbol-font |