Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to give you a tiny and somewhat meticulous suggestion for 
improvement for the nl man/help page.
(It is merely a typographical issue, if at all.)
The following applies to the help page but, the same also goes for the man page.

$ nl --help
...
By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn.  CC are
two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing
second character implies :.  Type \\ for \.  STYLE is one of:

  a         number all lines
  t         number only nonempty lines
  n         number no lines
  pBRE      number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular

FORMAT is one of:

  ln    left justified, no leading zeros
...

For better readability it would be better for the eye to change it to the 
following:

$ nl --help
...
By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn.

CC are two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing
second character implies :.  Type \\ for \.

STYLE is one of:

  a         number all lines
  t         number only nonempty lines
  n         number no lines
  pBRE      number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular

FORMAT is one of:

  ln    left justified, no leading zeros
...

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Jefgeni

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