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--- mandoc/mdoc.7	2017/02/16 14:38:12	1.262
+++ mandoc/mdoc.7	2017/06/10 16:32:27	1.265
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.262 2017/02/16 14:38:12 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.265 2017/06/10 16:32:27 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 16 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 10 2017 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -476,8 +476,6 @@ in the alphabetical
 .It Sx \&Ap Ta apostrophe without surrounding whitespace (no arguments)
 .It Sx \&Sm Ta switch horizontal spacing mode: Op Cm on | off
 .It Sx \&Bk , \&Ek Ta keep block: Fl words
-.It Sx \&br Ta force output line break in text mode (no arguments)
-.It Sx \&sp Ta force vertical space: Op Ar height
 .El
 .Ss Semantic markup for command line utilities:
 .Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description
@@ -737,7 +735,7 @@ A version of
 .At .
 .It Cm III
 .At III .
-.It Cm V[.[1-4]]?
+.It Cm V | V.[1-4]
 A version of
 .At V .
 .El
@@ -2736,29 +2734,6 @@ Examples:
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&;
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&Ns s behaviour
-.Ss \&br
-Emits a line-break.
-This macro should not be used; it is implemented for compatibility with
-historical manuals.
-.Pp
-Consider using
-.Sx \&Pp
-in the event of natural paragraph breaks.
-.Ss \&sp
-Emits vertical space.
-This macro should not be used; it is implemented for compatibility with
-historical manuals.
-Its syntax is as follows:
-.Pp
-.D1 Pf \. Sx \&sp Op Ar height
-.Pp
-The
-.Ar height
-argument is a scaling width as described in
-.Xr roff 7 .
-If unspecified,
-.Sx \&sp
-asserts a single vertical space.
 .Sh MACRO SYNTAX
 The syntax of a macro depends on its classification.
 In this section,
@@ -3043,8 +3018,6 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of argument
 .It Sx \&Va  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n
 .It Sx \&Vt  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
 .It Sx \&Xr  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    2
-.It Sx \&br  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    0
-.It Sx \&sp  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    1
 .El
 .Ss Delimiters
 When a macro argument consists of one single input character