Patches to man page from esr@thyrsus.com

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@30864 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/ChangeLog b/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/ChangeLog
index 3a5c603bb0d..b85a04a2e1a 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/ChangeLog
+++ b/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-06-23 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>
+
+	Incorporated patches for the man page from Eric S. Raymond
+	<esr@thyrsus.com>
+
+
 2012-12-07  Peter Breitenlohner  <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
 
 	* afm2pl.c: Drop unused variable (gcc-4.6 warning).
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/afm2pl.1 b/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/afm2pl.1
index bceec28b937..7261d375838 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/afm2pl.1
+++ b/Build/source/texk/afm2pl/afm2pl.1
@@ -337,29 +337,34 @@ Lines with ligkern specifications inside an encoding file should start with
 .PP
 Letterspacing has various side\-effects for ligkern info\&. Instead of simply applying the extra ligkern info (see previous section), the following is done:
 .sp
-.RS 4
-\h'-04' 1.\h'+02'In case of positive letterspacing, native ligatures are removed, unless the \-k option is specified\&.
-.RE
+.IP 1.
+In case of positive letterspacing, native ligatures are removed, unless the \-k option is specified\&.
 .sp
-.RS 4
-\h'-04' 2.\h'+02'Extra ligkern info is applied as usual, except that in case of positive letterspacing different defaults apply:
+.IP 2.
+Extra ligkern info is applied as usual, except that in case of positive letterspacing different defaults apply:
 \-l 0
 is quietly ignored, ligkern comments in the encoding file are ignored, and defpre\&.lig is read instead of default\&.lig\&.
-.RE
 .sp
-.RS 4
-\h'-04' 3.\h'+02'Letterspacing is applied\&. This adds a lot of kerns, and modifies existing kerns\&.
-.RE
+.IP 3.
+Letterspacing is applied\&. This adds a lot of kerns, and modifies existing kerns\&.
 .sp
-.RS 4
-\h'-04' 4.\h'+02'The extra ligkern info specified with \-L is applied\&. The only ligkern specs which are allowed here, are removals of kerning pairs (with the
+.IP 4.
+The extra ligkern info specified with \-L is applied\&. The only ligkern specs which are allowed here, are removals of kerning pairs (with the
 {}
 operator)\&. Values 0 and 1 have a similar meaning as for the \-l parameter\&.
 \fIThe tfm format has room for only about 180x180 ligatures and kerning pairs\&.\fR
 This is enough for OT1 encoding, but for texnansi encoding quite a few ligkern specifications have to be removed\&. The pltotf program will remove
 \fIall\fR
-ligkern info if too many ligatures and kerns remain\&. The default lig file is defpost\&.lig\&. This file throws out kerning pairs which are unlikely to be involved in letterspacing, such as kerns involving accents or kerns with a punctuation character or right bracket at the left\&. It does not add letterspacing kerns involving boundarychars\&. Instead, fontspace is increased by twice the letterspacing\&. defpost\&.lig throws out enough kerns in case of texnansi encoding\&. With other encodings, you may have to throw out additional kerning pairs\&.
-.RE
+ligkern info if too many ligatures and kerns remain\&. The default lig
+file is defpost\&.lig\&. This file throws out kerning pairs which are
+unlikely to be involved in letterspacing, such as kerns involving
+accents or kerns with a punctuation character or right bracket at the
+left\&. It does not add letterspacing kerns involving
+boundarychars\&. Instead, fontspace is increased by twice the
+letterspacing\&. defpost\&.lig throws out enough kerns in case of
+texnansi encoding\&. With other encodings, you may have to throw out
+additional kerning pairs\&.
+
 .SH "FONT-BASED UPPER- AND LOWERCASING"
 .PP
 The distribution includes encoding vectors texnanuc\&.enc and texnanlc\&.enc which produce all\-uppercase and all\-lowercase fonts