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Diff for /mandoc/mdoc.7 between version 1.133 and 1.137

version 1.133, 2010/07/06 11:07:21

version 1.137, 2010/07/19 10:48:36

Line 52 manuals must have

line terminators.

.Ss Comments

Text following a

.Sq \e" ,

.Sq \e\*q ,

whether in a macro or free-form text line, is ignored to the end of

line. A macro line with only a control character and comment escape,

.Sq \&.\e" ,

.Sq \&.\e\*q ,

is also ignored. Macro lines with only a control character and optionally

whitespace are stripped from input.

.Ss Reserved Characters

Line 135 If

is specified outside of any font scope, such as in unenclosed, free-form

text, it will affect the remainder of the document.

.Pp

Text may also be sized with the

Note this form is

.Sq \es

escape, whose syntax is one of

.Sq \es+-n

for one-digit numerals;

.Sq \es(+-nn

.Sq \es+-(nn

for two-digit numerals; and

.Sq \es[+-N] ,

.Sq \es+-[N] ,

.Sq \es'+-N' ,

.Sq \es+-'N'

for arbitrary-digit numerals:

.Pp

.D1 \es+1bigger\es-1

.D1 \es[+10]much bigger\es[-10]

.D1 \es+(10much bigger\es-(10

.D1 \es+'100'much much bigger\es-'100'

.Pp

Note these forms are

.Em not

recommended for

.Nm ,

Line 2332 line.

Line 2311 line.

.Ss \&Sc

.Ss \&Sh

.Ss \&Sm

Switches the spacing mode for output generated from macros.

Its syntax is as follows:

.Pp

.D1 Pf \. Sx \&Sm Cm on | off

.Pp

By default, spacing is

.Cm on .

When switched

.Cm off ,

no white space is inserted between macro arguments and between the

output generated from adjacent macros, but free-form text lines

still get normal spacing between words and sentences.

.Ss \&So

.Ss \&Sq

.Ss \&Ss

Line 2438 Heirloom troff, the other significant troff implementa

Line 2429 Heirloom troff, the other significant troff implementa

.Pp

.Bl -dash -compact

.It

The \es (font size), \em (font colour), and \eM (font filling colour)

font decoration escapes are all discarded in mandoc.

.It

Old groff fails to assert a newline before

.Sx \&Bd Fl ragged compact .

.It

Line 2485 pseudo-macro as a line macro.

Line 2479 pseudo-macro as a line macro.

mandoc does.

.It

The comment syntax

.Sq \e."

.Sq \e\."

is no longer accepted.

.It

In groff, the

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