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authorPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2010-05-17 07:58:30 +0000
committerPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2010-05-17 07:58:30 +0000
commita018954444adab7c33016ce804ea49ec54b8b4b2 (patch)
treed23fdaeaadf89bfc57f9abb98e823b557c6906d3 /Build/source/texk/web2c/man/aleph.man
parent4eb343fe6ec0cfe6e868ea717e604b65e795dcb9 (diff)
manpage formatting, also adapt to facts
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@18297 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ALEPH 1 "1 February 2010" "Web2C @VERSION@"
+.TH ALEPH 1 "14 May 2010" "Web2C @VERSION@"
.\"=====================================================================
.if n .ds MF Metafont
.if t .ds MF M\s-2ETAFONT\s0
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ aleph \- extended Unicode TeX
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B aleph
.RI [ options ]
-[\fB&\fR \fIformat\fR ]
-[ \fIfile\fR | \fB\e\fR \fIcommands\fR ]
+.RI [ \fB&\fPformat ]
+.RI [ file | \fB\e\fPcommands ]
.\"=====================================================================
.SH DESCRIPTION
Run the Aleph typesetter on
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ With a
.BI & format
argument Aleph uses a different set of precompiled commands,
contained in
-.IR format.fmt ;
+.IR format\fB.fmt\fP ;
it is usually better to use the
.B -fmt
.I format
@@ -57,7 +57,16 @@ activity.
Run aleph --help to see the complete list of options; this is not
exhaustive.
.TP
-.B -halt-on-error
+.BI --fmt \ format
+.rb
+Use
+.I format
+as the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which
+Aleph was called or a
+.I %&
+line.
+.TP
+.B --halt-on-error
.rb
Exit with an error code when an error is encountered during processing.
.TP
@@ -128,8 +137,9 @@ Use
.I string
for the DVI file comment instead of the date.
.TP
-.BI -output-directory \ directory
-.rb Write output files in
+.BI --output-directory \ directory
+.rb
+Write output files in
.I directory
instead of the current directory. Look up input files in
.I directory
@@ -180,7 +190,7 @@ expanded, not taken as part of the filename. Other programs, such as
\*(MF, do not have this problem.
.PP
.TP
-TEXMFOUTPUT
+.B TEXMFOUTPUT
Normally, Aleph puts its output files in the current directory. If
any output file cannot be opened there, it tries to open it in the
directory specified in the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT.
@@ -198,7 +208,7 @@ files, as \*(TX often generates files that need to be subsequently
read; for input, no suffixes (such as ``.tex'') are added by default,
the input name is simply checked as given.
.TP
-TEXINPUTS
+.B TEXINPUTS
Search path for
.I \einput
and
@@ -211,7 +221,7 @@ component will be replaced with the paths defined in the
file. For example, set TEXINPUTS to ".:/home/user/tex:" to prepend the
current direcory and ``/home/user/tex'' to the standard search path.
.TP
-TEXEDIT
+.B TEXEDIT
Command template for switching to editor. The default, usually
.BR vi ,
is set when Aleph is compiled.