Wording improvements for 'flag' and 'width' descriptions.

Some wording changes to bring terminology closer to SUSv3.

man3/strftime.3

@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@
 .\" Applied fix by Wolfgang Franke, aeb, 961011
 .\" Corrected return value, aeb, 970307
 .\" Added Single Unix Spec conversions and %z, aeb/esr, 990329.
+.\" 2005-11-22 mtk, added GLIBC NOTES covering optional 'flag' and 
+.\"           'width' components of conversion specifications.
 .\"
-.TH STRFTIME 3  1999-03-29 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH STRFTIME 3  2005-11-23 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 strftime \- format date and time
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -46,8 +48,12 @@ according to the format specification \fIformat\fP and places the
 result in the character array \fIs\fP of size \fImax\fP.
 .PP
 Ordinary characters placed in the format string are copied to \fIs\fP
-without conversion.  Conversion specifiers are introduced by a `%'
-character, and are replaced in \fIs\fP as follows:
+without conversion.  
+.I "Conversion specifications"
+are introduced by a `%'
+character, and terminated by a 
+.IR "conversion specifier character" ,
+and are replaced in \fIs\fP as follows:
 .TP
 .B %a
 The abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale.
@@ -213,9 +219,10 @@ format. (TZ)
 .B %%
 A literal `%' character.
 .PP
-Some conversion specifiers can be modified by preceding them
-by the E or O modifier to indicate that an alternative format
-should be used.
+Some conversion specifications can be modified by preceding the 
+conversion specifier character by the E or O 
+.I modifier 
+to indicate that an alternative format should be used.
 If the alternative format or specification does not exist for
 the current locale, the behaviour will be as if the unmodified
 conversion specification were used. (SU)
@@ -259,33 +266,43 @@ to allow for the theoretical possibility of a minute that
 included a double leap second
 (there never has been such a minute).
 .SH GLIBC NOTES
-Glibc provides a number of extensions for conversion specifiers.
-Between the % character and the conversion character, 
-an optional flag and field width may be specified.  
-(These precede the E or O modifies, if present.)
+Glibc provides some extensions for conversion specifications.
+(These extensions are not specified in POSIX.1-2001, but a few other
+systems provide similar features.)
+.\" HP-UX and Tru64 also have features like this.
+Between the % character and the conversion specifier character, 
+an optional 
+.I flag 
+and field
+.I width 
+may be specified.  
+(These precede the E or O modifiers, if present.)
+
 The following flag characters are permitted:
 .TP
 .B _
 (underscore)
-Pad a numeric output string with spaces.
+Pad a numeric result string with spaces.
 .TP
 .B \- 
 (dash)
-Do not pad a numeric output string.
+Do not pad a numeric result string.
 .TP
 .B 0
-Pad a numeric output string with zeros even if the conversion character 
-specifies space padding.
+Pad a numeric result string with zeros even if the conversion 
+specifier character uses space-padding by default.
 .TP
 .B ^
-Convert alphabetic characters in output string to upper case.
+Convert alphabetic characters in result string to upper case.
 .TP
 .B #
-Swap the case of the output string (only really useful with %Z).
+Swap the case of the result string.  
+(This flag only works with certain conversion specifier characters, 
+and of these, it is only really useful with %Z).
 .PP
 An optional decimal width specifier may follow the (possibly absent) flag.
 If the natural size of the field is smaller than this width,
-then the output string padded (on the left) to the specified width.
+then the result string is padded (on the left) to the specified width.
 .SH BUGS
 Some buggy versions of gcc complain about the use of %c:
 .IR "warning: `%c' yields only last 2 digits of year in some locales" .