=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.7,v retrieving revision 1.50 retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -p -r1.50 -r1.51 --- mandoc/man.7 2009/11/12 05:50:12 1.50 +++ mandoc/man.7 2009/11/12 08:00:21 1.51 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.50 2009/11/12 05:50:12 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.51 2009/11/12 08:00:21 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" @@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ 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 , @@ -982,14 +982,21 @@ 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 This idiosyncratic behaviour is no longer applicable.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