=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/mdoc.3,v retrieving revision 1.7 retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -p -r1.7 -r1.8 --- mandoc/Attic/mdoc.3 2009/02/23 09:46:59 1.7 +++ mandoc/Attic/mdoc.3 2009/02/23 12:45:19 1.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mdoc.3,v 1.7 2009/02/23 09:46:59 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: mdoc.3,v 1.8 2009/02/23 12:45:19 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" @@ -238,31 +238,31 @@ where capitalised non-terminals represent nodes. .Pp Of note are the TEXT nodes following the HEAD, BODY and TAIL nodes of the BLOCK production. These refer to punctuation marks. Furthermore, -although a TEXT node will generally have a non-zero-length string, it -certain cases, such as -.Dq \&.Bd \-literal , +although a TEXT node will generally have a non-zero-length string, in +the specific case of +.Sq \&.Bd \-literal , an empty line will produce a zero-length string. .\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -The rule-of-thumb for mapping node types to macros follows: in-line +The rule-of-thumb for mapping node types to macros follows. In-line elements, such as -.Dq \&.Em foo , +.Sq \&.Em foo , are classified as ELEMENT nodes, which can only contain text. -Multi-line elements such as -.Dq \&.Sh +Multi-line elements, such as +.Sq \&.Sh , are BLOCK elements, where the HEAD constitutes line contents and the BODY constitutes subsequent lines. In-line elements with matching pairs, such as -.Dq \&.So +.Sq \&.So and -.Dq \&.Sc , +.Sq \&.Sc , are BLOCK elements with no HEAD tag. The only exception to this is -.Dq \&.Eo +.Sq \&.Eo and -.Dq \&.Ec , +.Sq \&.Ec , which has a HEAD and TAIL node corresponding to the enclosure string. -TEXT nodes, obviously, constitute text; the ROOT node is the document's -root. +TEXT nodes, obviously, constitute text, and the ROOT node is the +document's root. .\" SECTION .Sh EXAMPLES The following example reads lines from stdin and parses them, operating