[jasmin-sable] 18/78: Tidy and rephrase parts of manpage.

[Emmanuel Bourg]

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commit 10c9a61643888d497ab8755466ff5af86efad40a
Author: Chris Lamb <chris at chris-lamb.co.uk>
Date:   Sun Feb 10 16:53:16 2008 +0000

    Tidy and rephrase parts of manpage.
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <chris at chris-lamb.co.uk>
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 debian/jasmin.1 | 47 ++++++++++++++---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/jasmin.1 b/debian/jasmin.1
index de68d6a..ad7729e 100644
--- a/debian/jasmin.1
+++ b/debian/jasmin.1
@@ -1,51 +1,32 @@
-.\"                                      Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
-.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
-.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
-.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
-.TH JASMIN-SABLE 1 "stycze� 21, 2004"
-.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
-.\"
-.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
-.\" .nh        disable hyphenation
-.\" .hy        enable hyphenation
-.\" .ad l      left justify
-.\" .ad b      justify to both left and right margins
-.\" .nf        disable filling
-.\" .fi        enable filling
-.\" .br        insert line break
-.\" .sp <n>    insert n+1 empty lines
-.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
+.TH JASMIN-SABLE 1 "February 10, 2008"
 .SH NAME
-jasmin \- java assembler compiler
+jasmin \- Java assembler compiler
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B jasmin
 .RI jasmin
 [-d <directory>] [-version] <file> [<file> ...]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-This manual page documents briefly the jasmin
-.B jasmin
-- java assembler compiler parameters.
-
-This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
-because the original program does not have a manual page.
 \fBjasmin\fP is a Java ASseMbler INterface. It takes ASCII descriptions
-for Java classes, written in a simple assembler-like syntax and using the
-Java Virtual Machine instruction set. It converts them into binary Java
-class files suitable for loading into a JVM implementation.
+of Java classes, written in the Java Virtual Machine instruction set in
+an assembler-like syntax.
+.PP
+Jasmin converts these input files into binary Java class files (.class)
+suitable for executing on an Java Virtual Machine.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-d <directory>
-Destination directory where the resulting files are to be places.
+Destination directory where the resulting files are to be placed.
 .TP
 .B \-version
 Show version of program.
 .TP
 .B <file> ...
-Source .j (jasmin java assembler format) file(s) to be compiled.
+Source .j (Jasmin Java assembler format) file(s) to be compiled.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-The /usr/share/doc/jasmin-sable/examples directory should contain some example
-assembly files.
+The /usr/share/doc/jasmin-sable/examples directory should contain
+some example assembly files.
 .SH AUTHOR
-This manual page was written by Grzegorz Prokopski (Debian Developer) <gadek at debian.org>,
-for the Debian project (but may be used by others). It is available under
+This manual page was written by Grzegorz Prokopski (Debian Developer)
+<gadek at debian.org> and Chris Lamb <chris at chris-lamb.co.uk> for the
+Debian project (but may be used by others). It is available under the
 GNU Lesser General Public License.

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