=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc_char.7,v retrieving revision 1.63 retrieving revision 1.66 diff -u -p -r1.63 -r1.66 --- mandoc/mandoc_char.7 2015/09/02 15:38:35 1.63 +++ mandoc/mandoc_char.7 2017/06/02 12:43:52 1.66 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.63 2015/09/02 15:38:35 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.66 2017/06/02 12:43:52 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons -.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, 2015 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 2 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 2 2017 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ blue-eyed lorry-driver .Ed .Pp +If a word on a text input line contains a hyphen, a formatter may decide +to insert an output line break after the hyphen if that helps filling +the current output line, but the whole word would overflow the line. +If it is important that the word is not broken across lines in this +way, a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& +can be inserted before or after the hyphen. +While +.Xr mandoc 1 +never breaks the output line after hyphens adjacent to a zero-width +space, after any of the other dash- or hyphen-like characters +represented by escape sequences, or after hyphens inside words in +macro arguments, other software may not respect these rules and may +break the line even in such cases. +.Pp +Some +.Xr roff 7 +implementations contains dictionaries allowing to break the line +at syllable boundaries even inside words that contain no hyphens. +Such automatic hyphenation is not supported by +.Xr mandoc 1 , +which only breaks the line at whitespace, and inside words only +after existing hyphens. +.Pp The mathematical minus sign is used for negative numbers or subtraction. It should be written as .Sq \e(mi : @@ -145,6 +169,8 @@ even on request and macro lines. .Ss Accents In output modes supporting such special output characters, for example .Fl T Cm pdf , +and sometimes less consistently in +.Fl T Cm utf8 , some .Xr roff 7 formatters convert the following ASCII input characters to the @@ -153,6 +179,7 @@ following Unicode special output characters: .It \(ga Ta U+2018 Ta left single quotation mark .It \(aq Ta U+2019 Ta right single quotation mark .It \(ti Ta U+02DC Ta small tilde +.It \(ha Ta U+02C6 Ta modifier letter circumflex .El .Pp In prose, this automatic substitution is often desirable; @@ -163,6 +190,7 @@ escaping to render as follows: .It \e(ga Ta U+0060 Ta grave accent .It \e(aq Ta U+0027 Ta apostrophe .It \e(ti Ta U+007E Ta tilde +.It \e(ha Ta U+005E Ta circumflex accent .El .Ss Periods The period @@ -255,6 +283,10 @@ Text markers: .It \e(sh Ta \(sh Ta hash (pound) .It \e(CR Ta \(CR Ta carriage return .It \e(OK Ta \(OK Ta check mark +.It \e(CL Ta \(CL Ta club suit +.It \e(SP Ta \(SP Ta spade suit +.It \e(HE Ta \(HE Ta heart suit +.It \e(DI Ta \(DI Ta diamond suit .El .Pp Legal symbols: @@ -348,6 +380,7 @@ Arrows: .It \e(uA Ta \(uA Ta up double-arrow .It \e(dA Ta \(dA Ta down double-arrow .It \e(vA Ta \(vA Ta up-down double-arrow +.It \e(an Ta \(an Ta horizontal arrow extension .El .Pp Logical: @@ -426,11 +459,20 @@ Mathematical: .It \e(Ah Ta \(Ah Ta aleph .It \e(Im Ta \(Im Ta imaginary .It \e(Re Ta \(Re Ta real +.It \e(wp Ta \(wp Ta Weierstrass p .It \e(pd Ta \(pd Ta partial differential .It \e(-h Ta \(-h Ta Planck constant over 2\(*p -.It \e[12] Ta \[12] Ta one-half -.It \e[14] Ta \[14] Ta one-fourth -.It \e[34] Ta \[34] Ta three-fourths +.It \e[hbar] Ta \[hbar] Ta Planck constant over 2\(*p +.It \e(12 Ta \(12 Ta one-half +.It \e(14 Ta \(14 Ta one-fourth +.It \e(34 Ta \(34 Ta three-fourths +.It \e(18 Ta \(18 Ta one-eighth +.It \e(38 Ta \(38 Ta three-eighths +.It \e(58 Ta \(58 Ta five-eighths +.It \e(78 Ta \(78 Ta seven-eighths +.It \e(S1 Ta \(S1 Ta superscript 1 +.It \e(S2 Ta \(S2 Ta superscript 2 +.It \e(S3 Ta \(S3 Ta superscript 3 .El .Pp Ligatures: @@ -564,6 +606,8 @@ Units: .It \e(fm Ta \(fm Ta minute .It \e(sd Ta \(sd Ta second .It \e(mc Ta \(mc Ta micro +.It \e(Of Ta \(Of Ta Spanish female ordinal +.It \e(Om Ta \(Om Ta Spanish masculine ordinal .El .Pp Greek letters: @@ -724,9 +768,7 @@ the differently between mandoc and groff. .It In -.Fl T Ns Cm html -and -.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml , +.Fl T Ns Cm html , the \e(\(ti=, \e(nb, and \e(nc special characters render differently between mandoc and groff. .It