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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-08-28 10:58:48 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-08-28 10:59:03 +0200
commit5cb0eea638e5db4de66bcf99d9ce4f6fd974e04e (patch)
treed70e6d404218717dba97d15a3e01a300173ddada
parent1f281b36801627601f8a92f26e8ac6a0a7e36526 (diff)
downloaddiffutils-5cb0eea638e5db4de66bcf99d9ce4f6fd974e04e.tar.gz
maint: avoid new syntax-check failure due to @xref use
* doc/diffutils.texi: Change several "; @xref{..." to ". @xref{...", since @xref should start a sentence.
-rw-r--r--doc/diffutils.texi12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/diffutils.texi b/doc/diffutils.texi
index d4a68f8..2908120 100644
--- a/doc/diffutils.texi
+++ b/doc/diffutils.texi
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ The fractional seconds are omitted on hosts that do not support
fractional time stamps.
You can change the header's content with the
-@option{--label=@var{label}} option; see @xref{Alternate Names}.
+@option{--label=@var{label}} option. @xref{Alternate Names}.
Next come one or more hunks of differences; each hunk shows one area
where the files differ. Unified format hunks look like this:
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ The corresponding lines differ, and only the second line is incomplete.
@end table
Normally, an output line is incomplete if and only if the lines that it
-contains are incomplete; @xref{Incomplete Lines}. However, when an
+contains are incomplete. @xref{Incomplete Lines}. However, when an
output line represents two differing lines, one might be incomplete
while the other is not. In this case, the output line is complete,
but its the gutter is marked @samp{\} if the first line is incomplete,
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ might contain duplicate or otherwise incorrect code.
The @command{patch} @option{-D @var{name}} option behaves like
the @command{diff} @option{-D @var{name}} option, except it operates on
-a file and a diff to produce a merged file; @xref{patch Options}.
+a file and a diff to produce a merged file. @xref{patch Options}.
@node Incomplete Lines
@chapter Incomplete Lines
@@ -1727,10 +1727,10 @@ line by a following line that starts with @samp{\}. However, the
@acronym{RCS} format (@pxref{RCS}) outputs the incomplete line as-is,
without any trailing newline or following line. The side by side
format normally represents incomplete lines as-is, but in some cases
-uses a @samp{\} or @samp{/} gutter marker; @xref{Side by Side}. The
+uses a @samp{\} or @samp{/} gutter marker. @xref{Side by Side}. The
if-then-else line format preserves a line's incompleteness with
-@samp{%L}, and discards the newline with @samp{%l}; @xref{Line
-Formats}. Finally, with the @command{ed} and forward @command{ed}
+@samp{%L}, and discards the newline with @samp{%l}. @xref{Line Formats}.
+Finally, with the @command{ed} and forward @command{ed}
output formats (@pxref{Output Formats}) @command{diff} cannot
represent an incomplete line, so it pretends there was a newline and
reports an error.