Revise the markup.

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.\" @(#)fortune.6 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dd November 7, 2007
.Dt FORTUNE 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Epigrams are divided into several categories, where each category
is subdivided into those which are potentially offensive and those
which are not.
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a
Choose from all lists of maxims, both offensive and not.
(See the
@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ option for more information on offensive fortunes.)
.It Fl D
Enable additional debugging output.
Specify this option multiple times for more verbose output.
Only available if compiled with -DDEBUG.
Only available if compiled with
.Li -DDEBUG .
.It Fl e
Consider all fortune files to be of equal size (see discussion below
on multiple files).
@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ Print out the list of files which would be searched, but do not
print a fortune.
.It Fl l
Long dictums only.
.It Fl m
.It Fl m Ar pattern
Print out all fortunes which match the regular expression
.Ar pattern .
See
@ -116,13 +117,13 @@ to guarantee that the message can be read before the screen is cleared.
The user may specify alternate sayings.
You can specify a specific file, a directory which contains one or
more files, or the special word
.Em all
.Cm all
which says to use all the standard databases.
Any of these may be preceded by a percentage, which is a number
.Ar N
between 0 and 100 inclusive, followed by a
.Ar % .
If it is, there will be a
.Ql % .
If it is, there will be an
.Ar N
percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file
or directory.
@ -132,61 +133,56 @@ and/or directories, in which case the probability of selecting from
one of them will be based on their relative sizes.
.Pp
As an example, given two databases
.Em funny
.Pa funny
and
.Em not-funny ,
.Pa not-funny ,
with
.Em funny
.Pa funny
twice as big, saying
.Bd -literal -offset indent
fortune funny not-funny
.Ed
.Pp
.Dl "fortune funny not-funny"
.Pp
will get you fortunes out of
.Em funny
.Pa funny
two-thirds of the time.
The command
.Bd -literal -offset indent
fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny
.Ed
.Pp
.Dl "fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny"
.Pp
will pick out 90% of its fortunes from
.Em funny
.Pa funny
(the
.Dq 10% not-funny
.Dq Li "10% not-funny"
is unnecessary, since 10% is all that is left).
The
.Fl e
option says to consider all files equal;
thus
.Bd -literal -offset indent
fortune -e funny not-funny
.Ed
.Pp
.Dl "fortune -e funny not-funny"
.Pp
is equivalent to
.Bd -literal -offset indent
fortune 50% funny 50% not-funny
.Ed
.Pp
.Dl "fortune 50% funny 50% not-funny"
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.It FORTUNE_PATH
The search path for the data files. It is a colon-separated list
of directories in which
.Bl -tag -width ".Ev FORTUNE_PATH"
.It Ev FORTUNE_PATH
The search path for the data files.
It is a colon-separated list of directories in which
.Nm
looks for data files. If not set it will default to /usr/games/fortune.
looks for data files.
If not set it will default to
.Pa /usr/games/fortune .
If none of the directories specified exist, it will print a warning and exit.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/games/fortune/*"
.It Pa /usr/games/fortune
.Pp
.It Pa /usr/share/games/fortune/*
the fortunes databases (those files ending
.Dq -o
.Dq Pa -o
contain the
.Bf -symbolic
offensive
.Ef
.Sy offensive
fortunes)
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO