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version 1.6, 2010/05/24 22:25:58

version 1.8, 2010/06/01 11:54:23

Line 126 which may be separated by any intervening input (or no

Its syntax is equivalent to

.Sx \&if .

.Ss \&if

Begins a conditional that always evaluates to false.

Begins a conditional.

Right now, the conditional evaluates to true

if and only if it starts with the letter

.Sy n ,

indicating processing in

.Xr nroff 1

style as opposed to

.Xr troff 1

style.

If a conditional is false, its children are not processed, but are

syntactically interpreted to preserve the integrity of the input

document.

Line 199 macro is discarded.

Line 207 macro is discarded.

Furthermore, if an explicit closing sequence

.Sq \e}

is specified in a free-form line, the entire line is accepted within the

scope of the prior macro, not only the text preceding the close.

scope of the prior macro, not only the text preceding the close, with the

.Sq \e}

collapsing into a zero-width space.

.Ss \&ig

Ignore input.

Accepts the following syntax:

Line 249 Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,

Line 259 Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,

and the number of arguments is not checked.

.Ss \&tr

Output character translation.

This macro is intended to have one argument,

consisting of an even number of characters.

Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,

and the number of arguments is not checked.