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| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 6 |
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diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index e215f53827..e175a9b7f3 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ argument (and it is an error if insufficiently many arguments are given). One can also specify explicitly which argument is taken, at each place where an argument is required, by writing "%m$" instead of \(aq%\(aq and "*m$" instead of \(aq*\(aq, -where the decimal integer m denotes +where the decimal integer \fIm\fP denotes the position in the argument list of the desired argument, indexed starting from 1. Thus, @@ -411,8 +411,8 @@ field is expanded to contain the conversion result. An optional precision, in the form of a period (\(aq.\(aq) followed by an optional decimal digit string. Instead of a decimal digit string one may write "*" or "*m$" -(for some decimal integer m) to specify that the precision -is given in the next argument, or in the m-th argument, respectively, +(for some decimal integer \fIm\fP) to specify that the precision +is given in the next argument, or in the \fIm\fP-th argument, respectively, which must be of type .IR int . If the precision is given as just \(aq.\(aq, the precision is taken to |