Fix docs.

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ New conversion specifiers are implemented.  Some of them take
 optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
 sign and the specifier letter.
 
-  %d        -  output number of seconds since tar started
-  %{r,w,d}T -  output I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
+  %d        -  Number of seconds since tar started.
+  %{r,w,d}T -  I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
                to be used before number of bytes read, written and
               deleted, correspondingly.
-  %{FMT}t   -  output current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format
-               If {FMT} is omitted, use %c
-  %{N}*     - pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the 
-              current screen width, if {N} is not given.
-  %c        -  a shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+  %{FMT}t   -  Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format.
+               If {FMT} is omitted, use %c.
+  %{N}*     -  Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the 
+               current screen width, if {N} is not given.
+  %c        -  A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
 
 * New option --one-top-level