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version 1.94, 2017/07/05 12:25:17

version 1.100, 2018/08/18 21:37:01

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Line 86 character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab char

The backslash character

.Sq \e

indicates the start of an escape sequence, used for example for

.Sx Comments ,

.Sx Comments

.Sx Special Characters ,

.Sx Predefined Strings ,

and

user-defined strings defined using the

.Sx Special Characters .

.Sx ds

request.

For a listing of escape sequences, consult the

.Sx ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE

below.

Line 169 Text decoration is

Line 165 Text decoration is

recommended for

.Xr mdoc 7 ,

which encourages semantic annotation.

.Ss Predefined Strings

Predefined strings, like

.Sx Special Characters ,

mark special output glyphs.

Predefined strings are escaped with the slash-asterisk,

.Sq \e* :

single-character

.Sq \e*X ,

two-character

.Sq \e*(XX ,

and N-character

.Sq \e* Ns Bq N .

.Pp

Examples:

.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact

.It Li \e*(Am

Two-letter ampersand predefined string.

.It Li \e*q

One-letter double-quote predefined string.

.El

.Pp

Predefined strings are not recommended for use,

as they differ across implementations.

Those supported by

.Xr mandoc 1

are listed in

.Xr mandoc_char 7 .

Manuals using these predefined strings are almost certainly not portable.

.Ss Whitespace

Whitespace consists of the space character.

In text lines, whitespace is preserved within a line.

Line 206 Unescaped trailing spaces are stripped from text line

Line 174 Unescaped trailing spaces are stripped from text line

literal context.

In general, trailing whitespace on any input line is discouraged for

reasons of portability.

In the rare case that a blank character is needed at the end of an

In the rare case that a space character is needed at the end of an

input line, it may be forced by

.Sq \e\ \e& .

.Pp

Line 665 produces

Line 633 produces

.Pp

in the input stream, and thus in the output: \fI\^XtFree\^\fP.

Each occurrence of \e\e$* is replaced with all the arguments,

joined together with single blank characters.

joined together with single space characters.

.Pp

Since macros and user-defined strings share a common string table,

defining a macro

Line 922 The following

Line 890 The following

.Ar font

arguments are supported:

.Bl -tag -width 4n -offset indent

.It Cm B , BI , 3 , 4

.It Cm B , BI , CB , 3 , 4

switches to

.Sy bold

font

.It Cm I , 2

.It Cm I , CI , 2

switches to

.Em underlined

font

.It Cm R , CW , 1

.It Cm R , CR , CW , 1

switches to normal font

.It Cm P No "or no argument"

switches back to the previous font

Line 1346 Currently unsupported.

Line 1314 Currently unsupported.

Temporarily turn off line numbering.

Currently unsupported.

.It Ic \&nop Ar body

Execute the rest of the input line as a request or macro line.

Execute the rest of the input line as a request, macro, or text line,

Currently unsupported.

skipping the

.It Ic \&nr Ar register Oo Cm + Ns | Ns Cm - Oc Ns Ar expression

.Ic \&nop

request and any space characters immediately following it.

This is mostly used to indent text lines inside macro definitions.

.It Ic \&nr Ar register Oo Cm + Ns | Ns Cm - Oc Ns Ar expression Op Ar stepsize

Define or change a register.

A register is an arbitrary string value that defines some sort of state,

which influences parsing and/or formatting.

Line 1360 below.

Line 1331 below.

If it is prefixed by a sign, the register will be

incremented or decremented instead of assigned to.

.Pp

The

.Ar stepsize

is used by the

.Ic \en+

auto-increment feature.

It remains unchanged when omitted while changing an existing register,

and it defaults to 0 when defining a new register.

.Pp

The following

.Ar register

is handled specially:

Line 1471 This is a groff extension and currently ignored.

Line 1450 This is a groff extension and currently ignored.

.It Ic \&rchar Ar glyph ...

Remove glyph definitions.

Currently unsupported.

.It Ic \&rd Op Ar prompt Op Ar agument ...

.It Ic \&rd Op Ar prompt Op Ar argument ...

Read from standard input.

Currently ignored.

.It Ic \&recursionlimit Ar maxrec maxtail

Line 1840 is an unpaddable space-sized non-breaking space charac

Line 1819 is an unpaddable space-sized non-breaking space charac

.Ss \e\(dq

The rest of the input line is treated as

.Sx Comments .

.Ss \e#

Line continuation with comment.

Discard the rest of the physical input line and continue the logical

input line on the next physical input line, joining the text on

both lines together as if it were on a single input line.

This is a groff extension.

.Ss \e%

Hyphenation allowed at this point of the word; ignored by

.Xr mandoc 1 .

Line 1856 with two-letter names, see

Line 1841 with two-letter names, see

.Xr mandoc_char 7 .

.Ss \e* Ns Bq Ar name

Interpolate the string with the

.Ar name ;

.Ar name .

see

.Sx Predefined Strings

and

.Sx ds .

For short names, there are variants

.No \e* Ns Ar c

and

.No \e*( Ns Ar cc .

.Pp

One string is predefined on the

.Nm

language level: \e*(.T expands to the name of the output device,

for example ascii, utf8, ps, pdf, html, or markdown.

.Pp

Macro sets traditionally predefine additional strings which are not

portable and differ across implementations.

Those supported by

.Xr mandoc 1

are listed in

.Xr mandoc_char 7 .

.Pp

Strings can be defined, changed, and deleted with the

.Ic \&ds ,

.Ic \&as ,

and

.Ic \&rm

requests.

.Ss \e,

Left italic correction (groff extension); ignored by

.Xr mandoc 1 .

Line 1996 and

Character

.Ar number

on the current font.

.Ss \en Ns Bq Ar name

.Ss \en Ns Oo +|- Oc Ns Bq Ar name

Interpolate the number register

.Ar name .

For short names, there are variants

.No \en Ns Ar c

and

.No \en( Ns Ar cc .

If the optional sign is specified,

the register is first incremented or decremented by the

.Ar stepsize

that was specified in the relevant

.Ic \&nr

request, and the changed value is interpolated.

.Ss \eo\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq

Overstrike, writing all the characters contained in the

.Ar string

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