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version 1.142, 2015/02/04 16:38:56

version 1.152, 2015/02/07 15:15:20

Line 729 macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still

.Pq mdoc

The

.Ic \&Dt

macro can only occur before the first non-prologue macro

macro appears after the first non-prologue macro.

because traditional formatters write the page header

Traditional formatters cannot handle this because

before parsing the document body.

they write the page header before parsing the document body.

Even though this technical restriction does not apply to

.Nm ,

traditional semantics is preserved.

Line 836 manual for replacements.

.Pq mdoc

The name of a macro that is not callable appears on a macro line.

It is printed verbatim.

If the intention is to call it, move it to its own line;

If the intention is to call it, move it to its own input line;

otherwise, escape it by prepending

.Sq \e& .

.It Sy "skipping paragraph macro"

Line 995 clause.

.It Sy "skipping empty macro"

.Pq mdoc

The indicated macro has no arguments and hence no effect.

.It Sy "empty block"

.Pq mdoc , man

.Ic \&Bd ,

.Ic \&Bk ,

.Ic \&Bl ,

.Ic \&D1 ,

.Ic \&Dl ,

.Ic \&RS ,

.Ic \&UR

block contains nothing in its body and will produce no output.

.It Sy "empty argument, using 0n"

.Pq mdoc

The required width is missing after

Line 1004 or

Line 1016 or

.Fl offset

.Fl width.

.It Sy "argument count wrong"

.Pq mdoc , man

The indicated macro has too few or too many arguments.

The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given.

Formatting behaviour depends on the specific macro in question.

Note that the same message may also occur as an ERROR, see below.

.It Sy "missing display type, using -ragged"

.Pq mdoc

The

Line 1041 The

Line 1047 The

macro is called without an argument before

.Ic \&Nm

has first been called with an argument.

.It Sy "missing function name, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq mdoc

The

.Ic \&Fo

macro is called without an argument.

No function name is printed.

.It Sy "empty head in list item"

.Pq mdoc

In a

Line 1068 list, an

Line 1080 list, an

.Ic \&It

block is empty.

An empty list item is shown.

.It Sy "missing font type"

.It Sy "missing font type, using \efR"

.Pq mdoc

.Ic \&Bf

macro has no argument.

It switches to the default font,

It switches to the default font.

.Cm \efR .

.It Sy "unknown font type, using \efR"

.It Sy "unknown font type"

.Pq mdoc

The

.Ic \&Bf

argument is invalid.

The default font

The default font is used instead.

.Cm \efR

is used instead.

.It Sy "nothing follows prefix"

.Pq mdoc

Line 1091 macro has no argument, or only one argument and no mac

Line 1100 macro has no argument, or only one argument and no mac

on the same input line.

This defeats its purpose; in particular, spacing is not suppressed

before the text or macros following on the next input line.

.It Sy "empty reference block"

.Pq mdoc

.Ic \&Rs

macro is immediately followed by an

.Ic \&Re

macro on the next input line.

Such an empty block does not produce any output.

.It Sy "missing -std argument, adding it"

.Pq mdoc

Line 1105 The

Line 1122 The

utility assumes

.Fl std

even when it is not specified, but other implementations may not.

.It Sy "missing option string, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq man

The

.Ic \&OP

macro is invoked without any argument.

An empty pair of square brackets is shown.

.It Sy "missing resource identifier, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq man

The

.Ic \&UR

macro is invoked without any argument.

An empty pair of angle brackets is shown.

.It Sy "missing eqn box, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq eqn

A diacritic mark or a binary operator is found,

Line 1169 list has a

Line 1198 list has a

.Fl width

argument.

That has no effect.

.It Sy "wrong number of cells"

In a line of a

.Ic \&Bl Fl column

list, the number of tabs or

.Ic \&Ta

macros is less than the number expected from the list header line

or exceeds the expected number by more than one.

Missing cells remain empty, and all cells exceeding the number of

columns are joined into one single cell.

.It Sy "unknown AT&T UNIX version"

.Pq mdoc

Line 1220 request or a

Line 1258 request or a

layout modifier has an unknown

.Ar font

argument.

.It Sy "odd number of characters in request"

.Pq roff

.Ic \&tr

request contains an odd number of characters.

The last character is mapped to the blank character.

.El

.Ss "Warnings related to plain text"

.Bl -ohang

Line 1456 macros as well as tables require explicit closing by d

Line 1500 macros as well as tables require explicit closing by d

A block that doesn't support bad nesting

ends before all of its children are properly closed.

The open child nodes are closed implicitly.

.It Sy "scope open on exit"

.It Sy "appending missing end of block"

.Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff

At the end of the document, an explicit

.Xr mdoc 7

Line 1506 When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro nam

Line 1550 When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro nam

only the escape sequence is discarded.

The characters preceding it are used as the request or macro name,

the characters following it are used as the arguments to the request or macro.

.It Sy "argument count wrong"

.Pq mdoc , man , roff

The indicated request or macro has too few or too many arguments.

The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given.

Formatting behaviour depends on the specific request or macro in question.

Note that the same message may also occur as a WARNING, see above.

.It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: Bd -file"

.Pq mdoc

For security reasons, the

Line 1594 An

Line 1632 An

.Ic \&Ef ,

.Ic \&Ek ,

.Ic \&El ,

.Ic \&Lp ,

.Ic \&Pp ,

.Ic \&Re ,

.Ic \&Rs ,

.Ic \&Ud

macro, an

Line 1612 or

Line 1653 or

.Ic \&EN

macro, or a

.Xr roff 7

.Ic \&br ,

.Ic \&fi ,

.Ic \&nf

request or

.Sq \&..

block closing request is invoked with at least one argument.

All arguments are ignored.

.It Sy "skipping excess arguments"

.Pq mdoc , man , roff

The

A macro or request is invoked with too many arguments:

.Ic \&Bf

.Bl -dash -offset 2n -width 2n -compact

macro is invoked with more than one argument, the

.It

.Ic \&Fo ,

.Ic \&PD ,

.Ic \&RS ,

.Ic \&UR ,

.Ic \&ft ,

.Ic \&sp

with more than one argument

.It

.Ic \&An

with another argument after

.Fl split

.Fl nosplit

.It

.Ic \&RE

macro is invoked with more than one argument

with more than one argument or with a non-integer argument

or with a non-integer argument, or a request of the

.It

.Ic \&OP

or a request of the

.Ic \&de

family is invoked with more than two arguments.

family with more than two arguments

.It

.Ic \&TH

with more than five arguments

.It

.Ic \&Bd ,

.Ic \&Bk ,

.Ic \&Bl

with invalid arguments

.El

The excess arguments are ignored.

.El

.Ss Unsupported features

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