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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.4 -r1.11
--- mandoc/roff.7	2010/05/17 02:01:05	1.4
+++ mandoc/roff.7	2010/06/27 16:36:22	1.11
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.4 2010/05/17 02:01:05 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.11 2010/06/27 16:36:22 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 17 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 27 2010 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -90,13 +90,51 @@ The syntax of this macro is the same as that of
 .Sx \&ig ,
 except that a leading argument must be specified.
 It is ignored, as are its children.
+.Ss \&ds
+Define a string.
+This macro is intended to have two arguments,
+the name of the string to define and its content.
+Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
+and the number of arguments is not checked.
 .Ss \&de1
 The syntax of this macro is the same as that of
 .Sx \&ig ,
 except that a leading argument must be specified.
 It is ignored, as are its children.
+.Ss \&el
+The
+.Qq else
+half of an if/else conditional.
+Pops a result off the stack of conditional evaluations pushed by
+.Sx \&ie
+and uses it as its conditional.
+If no stack entries are present (e.g., due to no prior
+.Sx \&ie
+calls)
+then false is assumed.
+The syntax of this macro is similar to
+.Sx \&if
+except that the conditional is missing.
+.Ss \&ie
+The
+.Qq if
+half of an if/else conditional.
+The result of the conditional is pushed into a stack used by subsequent
+invocations of
+.Sx \&el ,
+which may be separated by any intervening input (or not exist at all).
+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.
@@ -135,8 +173,19 @@ BODY...
 BODY
 .Ed
 .Pp
-COND is a conditional (for the time being, this always evaluates to
-false).
+COND is a conditional statement.
+roff allows for complicated conditionals; mandoc is much simpler.
+At this time, mandoc supports only
+.Sq n ,
+evaluating to true;
+and
+.Sq t ,
+.Sq e ,
+and
+.Sq o ,
+evaluating to false.
+All other invocations are read up to the next end of line or space and
+evaluate as false.
 .Pp
 If the BODY section is begun by an escaped brace
 .Sq \e{ ,
@@ -169,7 +218,9 @@ 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:
@@ -211,6 +262,49 @@ the subsequent invocation of
 .Sx \&if
 will first signify the end of comment, then be invoked as a macro.
 This behaviour really shouldn't be counted upon.
+.Ss \&rm
+Remove a request, macro or string.
+This macro is intended to have one argument,
+the name of the request, macro or string to be undefined.
+Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
+and the number of arguments is not checked.
+.Ss \&nr
+Define a register.
+A register is an arbitrary string value that defines some sort of state,
+which influences parsing and/or formatting.
+Its syntax is as follows:
+.Pp
+.D1 Pf \. Sx \&nr Cm name value
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm value
+may, at the moment, only be an integer.
+The
+.Cm name
+is defined up to the next whitespace.
+The following register
+.Cm name
+requests are recognised:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm nS
+If set to a positive integer value, certain
+.Xr mdoc 7
+macros will behave as if they were defined in the
+.Em SYNOPSIS
+section.
+Otherwise, this behaviour is unset (even if called within the
+.Em SYNOPSIS
+section itself).
+Note that invoking a new
+.Xr mdoc 7
+section will unset this value.
+.El
+.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.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other other
 troff implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff
@@ -223,6 +317,12 @@ file re-write
 .Pq somewhere between 1.15 and 1.19 .
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
+.It
+The
+.Cm nS
+request to
+.Sx \&nr
+is only compatible with OpenBSD's groff.
 .It
 Historic groff did not accept white-space buffering the custom END tag
 for the