On 30/11/15 21:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/30/2015 06:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well. >> >> The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also >> used in the sed manual. It's a little odd but it sort of rhymes with >> "fourth". > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > I think NUMBER is a bit long, and reduces the space for the description, > or it my destroy the aligning. > > My suggestion is NUM (which is also used in grep(1) BTW). > Patch attached ... it's just not so tiny because I also fixed the order > of the options of tail in the Texinfo manual.
Lots of little changes adding up to a much better result. Looks good. Marking bug as done. thanks! Pádraig