merge novem

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/doc/Tcl.n b/doc/Tcl.n
index 68146ab..c7fa9f6 100644
--- a/doc/Tcl.n
+++ b/doc/Tcl.n
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
 '\"
-.so man.macros
 .TH Tcl n "8.6" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
+.so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
 Tcl \- Tool Command Language
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ First, the Tcl interpreter breaks the command into \fIwords\fR
 and performs substitutions as described below.
 These substitutions are performed in the same way for all
 commands.
-The first word is used to locate a command procedure to
+Secondly, the first word is used to locate a command procedure to
 carry out the command, then all of the words of the command are
 passed to the command procedure.
 The command procedure is free to interpret each of its words
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ Variable substitution may take any of the following forms:
 \fIName\fR is the name of a scalar variable;  the name is a sequence
 of one or more characters that are a letter, digit, underscore,
 or namespace separators (two or more colons).
-Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\-\fB9\fR,
-\fBA\fR\-\fBZ\fR and \fBa\fR\-\fBz\fR).
+Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\(en\fB9\fR,
+\fBA\fR\(en\fBZ\fR and \fBa\fR\(en\fBz\fR).
 .TP 15
 \fB$\fIname\fB(\fIindex\fB)\fR
 .
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\-\fB9\fR,
 the name of an element within that array.
 \fIName\fR must contain only letters, digits, underscores, and
 namespace separators, and may be an empty string.
-Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\-\fB9\fR,
-\fBA\fR\-\fBZ\fR and \fBa\fR\-\fBz\fR).
+Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\(en\fB9\fR,
+\fBA\fR\(en\fBZ\fR and \fBa\fR\(en\fBz\fR).
 Command substitutions, variable substitutions, and backslash
 substitutions are performed on the characters of \fIindex\fR.
 .TP 15
@@ -158,25 +158,25 @@ handled specially, along with the value that replaces each sequence.
 .RS
 .TP 7
 \e\fBa\fR
-Audible alert (bell) (0x7).
+Audible alert (bell) (Unicode U+000007).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBb\fR
-Backspace (0x8).
+Backspace (Unicode U+000008).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBf\fR
-Form feed (0xc).
+Form feed (Unicode U+00000C).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBn\fR
-Newline (0xa).
+Newline (Unicode U+00000A).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBr\fR
-Carriage-return (0xd).
+Carriage-return (Unicode U+00000D).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBt\fR
-Tab (0x9).
+Tab (Unicode U+000009).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBv\fR
-Vertical tab (0xb).
+Vertical tab (Unicode U+00000B).
 .TP 7
 \e\fB<newline>\fIwhiteSpace\fR
 .
@@ -194,8 +194,9 @@ Backslash
 \e\fIooo\fR 
 .
 The digits \fIooo\fR (one, two, or three of them) give a eight-bit octal 
-value for the Unicode character that will be inserted, in the range \fI000\fR
-- \fI377\fR.  The parser will stop just before this range overflows, or when
+value for the Unicode character that will be inserted, in the range
+\fI000\fR\(en\fI377\fR (i.e., the range U+000000\(enU+0000FF).
+The parser will stop just before this range overflows, or when
 the maximum of three digits is reached.  The upper bits of the Unicode
 character will be 0.
 .TP 7
@@ -203,23 +204,27 @@ character will be 0.
 .
 The hexadecimal digits \fIhh\fR (one or two of them) give an eight-bit
 hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be inserted.  The upper
-bits of the Unicode character will be 0.
+bits of the Unicode character will be 0 (i.e., the character will be in the
+range U+000000\(enU+0000FF).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBu\fIhhhh\fR 
 .
 The hexadecimal digits \fIhhhh\fR (one, two, three, or four of them) give a
 sixteen-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be
-inserted.  The upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0.
+inserted.  The upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0 (i.e., the
+character will be in the range U+000000\(enU+00FFFF).
 .TP 7
 \e\fBU\fIhhhhhhhh\fR 
 .
 The hexadecimal digits \fIhhhhhhhh\fR (one up to eight of them) give a
 twenty-one-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be
-inserted, in the range U+0000..U+10FFFF.  The parser will stop just
+inserted, in the range U+000000\(enU+10FFFF.  The parser will stop just
 before this range overflows, or when the maximum of eight digits
 is reached.  The upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0.
+.RS
 .PP
-The range U+010000..U+10FFFD is reserved for the future.
+The range U+010000\(enU+10FFFD is reserved for the future.
+.RE
 .PP
 Backslash substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces,
 except for backslash-newline as described above.