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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.7
--- mandoc/mandoc.1	2009/03/19 16:17:27	1.1
+++ mandoc/mandoc.1	2009/03/23 09:42:43	1.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.1 2009/03/19 16:17:27 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.7 2009/03/23 09:42:43 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 .\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 19 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 23 2009 $
 .Dt mandoc 1
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ arguments may be comma-separated, such as
 .It Ar infile...
 Read input from zero or more
 .Ar infile .
-If unspecified, reads from stdin.
+If unspecified, reads from stdin.  If multiple files are specified,
+.Nm
+will halt with the first failed parse.
 .El
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
@@ -86,6 +88,50 @@ were provided.
 .Pp
 .Ex -std mandoc
 .\" SUB-SECTION
+.Ss Reserved Words
+The reserved words described in
+.Xr mdoc 7
+are handled according to the following rules:
+.Bl -enum -offset XXX
+.It
+Opening delimiters 
+.Po
+.Sq \&( , 
+.Sq \&[ , 
+and
+.Sq \&{
+.Pc are not followed by whitespace.
+.It
+Closing delimiters
+.Po
+.Sq \&. , 
+.Sq \&, , 
+.Sq \&; , 
+.Sq \&: , 
+.Sq \&? , 
+.Sq \&! , 
+.Sq \&) , 
+.Sq \&] 
+and
+.Sq \&}
+.Pc are not preceeded by whitespace.
+.El
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Note that reserved words only register as such as if they appear as
+standalone tokens, either in parsed lines or streams of text.  Thus, the
+following fragment:
+.Bd -literal -offset XXXX
+this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man
+.Ed
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+\&...correctly adjusts the comma spacing to
+.Dq this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man .
+However, if the comma were part of 
+.Dq ,empirically ,
+it would not.
+.\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Output Formats
 The
 .Nm
@@ -143,27 +189,37 @@ utility was written by 
 .Sh CAVEATS
 The 
 .Nm
-utility doesn't yet know how to display the following:
+utility in
+.Fl T Ns Ar ascii
+mode doesn't yet know how to display the following:
 .Pp
 .Bl -bullet -compact
 .It
 The \-hang 
 .Sq \&Bl
 list is not yet supported.
-.It
-The \-literal and \-unfilled 
-.Sq \&Bd
-displays only accept text contents.
-.It
-The
-.Sq \&Xo/Xc
-pair isn't supported.
-.It
-The
-.Sq \&Sm
-macro has no effect, yet.
 .El
 .Pp
 Other macros still aren't supported by virtue of nobody complaining
 about their absence.  Please report any omissions: this is a work in
 progress.
+.Pp
+The following list documents differences between traditional
+.Xr nroff 1
+output and
+.Nm :
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It 
+A list of display following
+.Sq \&Ss
+does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
+.Sq \&Sh .
+.It
+Special characters don't follow the current font style.
+.\" LIST-ITEM
+.It
+The \-literal and \-unfilled 
+.Sq \&Bd
+displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
+.El