[PATCH xrandr v4 3/5] xrandr.man: grammar tuning

Giuseppe Bilotta giuseppe.bilotta at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 01:47:59 UTC 2018


Rephrase the --scale option paragraph to improve English and be more
consistent in choice of plurals and tense. Also ensure that each
sentence starts on a new line in the roff source.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta at gmail.com>
---
 man/xrandr.man | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/xrandr.man b/man/xrandr.man
index e59abbe..cfbfb8f 100644
--- a/man/xrandr.man
+++ b/man/xrandr.man
@@ -208,11 +208,12 @@ Chooses the scaling filter method to be applied when the screen is scaled or
 transformed.
 Can be either 'bilinear' or 'nearest'.
 .IP "\-\-scale \fIx\fP[x\fIy\fP]"
-Changes the dimensions of the output picture. If the \fIy\fP value is omitted,
-the \fIx\fP value will be used for both dimensions. Values superior to 1 will lead to
-a compressed screen (screen dimension bigger than the dimension of the output
-mode), and values below 1 leads to a zoom in on the output. This option is
-actually a shortcut version of the \fI\-\-transform\fP option.
+Changes the dimensions of the output picture.
+If the \fIy\fP value is omitted, the \fIx\fP value will be used for both dimensions.
+Values larger than 1 lead to a compressed screen (screen dimension bigger
+than the dimension of the output mode), and values less than 1 lead to
+a zoom in on the output.
+This option is actually a shortcut version of the \fI\-\-transform\fP option.
 .IP "\-\-scale-from \fIw\fPx\fIh\fP"
 Specifies the size in pixels of the area of the framebuffer to be displayed on
 this output.
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2.14.1.439.g647b9b4702



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