=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mdoc.7,v retrieving revision 1.280 retrieving revision 1.281 diff -u -p -r1.280 -r1.281 --- mandoc/mdoc.7 2020/01/19 18:02:00 1.280 +++ mandoc/mdoc.7 2020/02/13 18:32:56 1.281 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.280 2020/01/19 18:02:00 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.281 2020/02/13 18:32:56 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2020 Ingo Schwarze @@ -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: January 19 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2020 $ .Dt MDOC 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1203,7 +1203,8 @@ Close a block. Does not have any tail arguments. .It Ic \&Dd Cm $\&Mdocdate$ | Ar month day , year -Document date for display in the page footer. +Document date for display in the page footer, +by convention the date of the last change. This is the mandatory first macro of any .Nm manual. @@ -3084,26 +3085,12 @@ The following problematic behaviour is found in groff: .Pp .Bl -dash -compact .It -.Ic \&Dd -with non-standard arguments behaves very strangely. -When there are three arguments, they are printed verbatim. -Any other number of arguments is replaced by the current date, -but without any arguments the string -.Dq Epoch -is printed. -.It -.Ic \&Lk -only accepts a single link-name argument; the remainder is misformatted. -.It .Ic \&Pa does not format its arguments when used in the FILES section under certain list types. .It .Ic \&Ta can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line. -.It -.Ic \&%C -is not implemented (up to and including groff-1.22.2). .It .Sq \ef .Pq font face