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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.71
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -u -p -r1.71 -r1.76
--- mandoc/roff.7	2015/04/29 18:35:00	1.71
+++ mandoc/roff.7	2017/02/21 23:44:43	1.76
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.71 2015/04/29 18:35:00 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.76 2017/02/21 23:44:43 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -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: April 29 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 21 2017 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -665,6 +665,8 @@ produces
 .D1 \efI\e^XtFree\e^\efP.
 .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.
 .Pp
 Since macros and user-defined strings share a common string table,
 defining a macro
@@ -1057,8 +1059,6 @@ If the first character of COND is
 .Pq string defined ,
 .Sq e
 .Pq even page ,
-.Sq r
-.Pq register accessed ,
 .Sq t
 .Pq troff mode ,
 or
@@ -1066,6 +1066,11 @@ or
 .Pq vroff mode ,
 COND evaluates to false.
 .It
+If the first character of COND is
+.Sq r ,
+it evaluates to true if the rest of COND is the name of an existing
+number register; otherwise, it evaluates to false.
+.It
 If COND starts with a parenthesis or with an optionally signed
 integer number, it is evaluated according to the rules of
 .Sx Numerical expressions
@@ -1337,7 +1342,7 @@ Currently unsupported.
 Temporarily turn off line numbering.
 Currently unsupported.
 .Ss \&nop
-Exexute the rest of the input line as a request or macro line.
+Execute the rest of the input line as a request or macro line.
 Currently unsupported.
 .Ss \&nr
 Define or change a register.
@@ -1579,7 +1584,7 @@ Set tab stops.
 Takes an arbitrary number of arguments.
 Currently unsupported.
 .Ss \&tc
-Change tab repetion character.
+Change tab repetition character.
 Currently unsupported.
 .Ss \&TE
 End a table context.
@@ -1679,7 +1684,7 @@ Notify on change of string or macro.
 This is a Heirloom extension and currently ignored.
 .Ss \&watchlength
 On change, report the contents of macros and strings
-up to the sepcified length.
+up to the specified length.
 This is a Heirloom extension and currently ignored.
 .Ss \&watchn
 Notify on change of register.
@@ -1774,8 +1779,8 @@ minimum (not available in C)
 maximum (not available in C)
 .El
 .Pp
-There is no concept of precendence; evaluation proceeds from left to right,
-except when subexpressions are enclosed in parantheses.
+There is no concept of precedence; evaluation proceeds from left to right,
+except when subexpressions are enclosed in parentheses.
 Inside parentheses, whitespace is ignored.
 .Sh ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE
 The
@@ -1834,9 +1839,15 @@ For short names, there are variants
 .No \e* Ns Ar c
 and
 .No \e*( Ns Ar cc .
+.Ss \e,
+Left italic correction (groff extension); ignored by
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
 .Ss \e-
 Special character
 .Dq mathematical minus sign .
+.Ss \e/
+Right italic correction (groff extension); ignored by
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
 .Ss \e[ Ns Ar name ]
 .Sx Special Characters
 with names of arbitrary length, see