for padding strings to a given column width; these will be discussed
shortly. The second way is to use the \code{\%} operator with a
string as the left argument. The \code{\%} operator interprets the
-left argument as a C much like a \cfunction{sprintf()}-style format
+left argument much like a \cfunction{sprintf()}-style format
string to be applied to the right argument, and returns the string
resulting from this formatting operation.