=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.7,v retrieving revision 1.126 retrieving revision 1.127 diff -u -p -r1.126 -r1.127 --- mandoc/man.7 2014/03/31 01:05:32 1.126 +++ mandoc/man.7 2014/06/22 16:39:45 1.127 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.126 2014/03/31 01:05:32 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.127 2014/06/22 16:39:45 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013 Ingo Schwarze @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 22 2014 $ .Dt MAN 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -873,10 +873,11 @@ Note that macros like .Sx \&BR open and close a font scope for each argument. .Sh COMPATIBILITY -This section documents areas of questionable portability between +This section mentions some areas of questionable portability between implementations of the .Nm language. +More incompatibilities exist. .Pp .Bl -dash -compact .It @@ -888,47 +889,12 @@ to close out a literal context opened with .Sx \&nf . This behaviour may not be portable. .It -In quoted literals, GNU troff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce -a standalone double-quote in formatted output. -It is not known whether this behaviour is exhibited by other formatters. -.It troff suppresses a newline before .Sq \(aq macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard .Sq \&. control character. .It -The -.Sq \eh -.Pq horizontal position , -.Sq \ev -.Pq vertical position , -.Sq \em -.Pq text colour , -.Sq \eM -.Pq text filling colour , -.Sq \ez -.Pq zero-length character , -.Sq \ew -.Pq string length , -.Sq \ek -.Pq horizontal position marker , -.Sq \eo -.Pq text overstrike , -and -.Sq \es -.Pq text size -escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc. -.It -The -.Sq \ef -scaling unit is accepted by mandoc, but rendered as the default unit. -.It -The -.Sx \&sp -macro does not accept negative values in mandoc. -In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour. -.It In page header lines, GNU troff versions up to and including 1.21 only print .Ar volume @@ -944,8 +910,13 @@ is given, like in .El .Pp The -.Sx OP -macro is part of the extended +.Sx EE , +.Sx EX , +.Sx OP , +.Sx UE , +and +.Sx UR +macros are part of the GNU extended .Nm macro set, and may not be portable to non-GNU troff implementations. .Sh SEE ALSO