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--- mandoc/man.7	2009/11/09 05:11:46	1.48
+++ mandoc/man.7	2009/11/16 08:46:59	1.54
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.48 2009/11/09 05:11:46 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.54 2009/11/16 08:46:59 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 9 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 16 2009 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .
@@ -67,15 +67,7 @@ line termination.
 Blank lines are acceptable; where found, the output will assert a
 vertical space.
 .
-.Pp
-The
-.Sq \ec
-escape is common in historical
-.Nm
-documents; if encountered at the end of a word, it ensures that the
-subsequent word isn't off-set by whitespace.
 .
-.
 .Ss Comments
 Text following a
 .Sq \e\*" ,
@@ -115,7 +107,12 @@ escape followed by an indicator: B (bold), I, (italic)
 .D1 \efBbold\efR \efIitalic\efP
 .Pp
 A numerical representation 3, 2, or 1 (bold, italic, and Roman,
-respectively) may be used instead.
+respectively) may be used instead.  A text decoration is only valid, if
+specified in free-form text, until the next macro invocation; if
+specified within a macro, it's only valid until the macro closes scope.
+Note that macros like
+.Sx \&BR
+open and close a font scope with each argument.
 .Pp
 Text may also be sized with the
 .Sq \es
@@ -137,6 +134,12 @@ for arbitrary-digit numerals:
 .D1 \es[+10]much bigger\es[-10]
 .D1 \es+(10much bigger\es-(10
 .D1 \es+'100'much much bigger\es-'100'
+.Pp
+Both
+.Sq \es
+and
+.Sq \ef
+attributes are forgotten when entering or exiting a macro block.
 .
 .
 .Ss Whitespace
@@ -916,8 +919,8 @@ End literal mode begun by
 .
 .
 .Ss \&i
-Italicise arguments.  If no arguments are specified, all subsequent text
-is italicised.
+Italicise arguments.  Synonym for
+.Sx \&I .
 .Pp
 See also
 .Sx \&B ,
@@ -973,14 +976,21 @@ See also
 This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at
 this time limited to
 .Xr groff 1 .
-.Bl -hyphen
+.Pp
+.Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+The
+.Xr groff 1
+.Sx \&i
+macro will italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not
+provided.  This behaviour is not implemented.
+.It
 In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a
 standalone double-quote in formatted output.  This idiosyncratic
 behaviour is no longer applicable.
 .It
 The
-.Sq sp
+.Sx \&sp
 macro does not accept negative numbers.
 .It
 Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text