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use | rather than / for alternatives and some macro fixes

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.\" $OpenBSD: fortune.6,v 1.13 2015/02/06 09:30:04 tedu Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: fortune.6,v 1.14 2015/09/25 17:37:23 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" @(#)fortune.6 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 6 2015 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: September 25 2015 $
.Dt FORTUNE 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Oo
.Op Ar N Ns %
.Sm off
.Ar file No / Ar directory No / Ar all
.Ar file | Ar directory | Cm all
.Sm on
.Oc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@ -108,9 +108,12 @@ to guarantee that the message can be read before the screen is cleared.
.El
.Pp
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 ,
You can specify a specific
.Ar file ,
a
.Ar directory
which contains one or more files, or the special word
.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
@ -119,26 +122,28 @@ between 0 and 100 inclusive, followed by a
character.
If it is, there will be an
.Ar N
percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file
or directory.
percent probability that an adage will be picked from that
.Ar file
or
.Ar directory .
If the percentages do not sum to 100, and there are specifications
without percentages, the remaining percent will apply to those files
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
will get you fortunes out of
.Em funny
.Pa funny
two-thirds of the time.
The command
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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.Ed
.Pp
will pick out 90% of its fortunes from
.Em funny
.Pa funny
(the
.Dq 10%
is unnecessary, since 10% is all that's left).