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-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.130 2015/01/24 02:14:46 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.135 2017/05/07 21:44:49 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -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: January 24 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 7 2017 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ in the alphabetical reference below.
 .It Sx TP Ta tagged paragraph: Op Ar width
 .It Sx HP Ta hanged paragraph: Op Ar width
 .It Sx PD Ta set vertical paragraph distance: Op Ar height
-.It Sx \&br Ta force output line break in text mode (no arguments)
-.It Sx \&sp Ta force vertical space: Op Ar height
 .It Sx fi , nf Ta fill mode and no-fill mode (no arguments)
 .It Sx in Ta additional indent: Op Ar width
 .El
@@ -350,8 +348,12 @@ See also
 and
 .Sx \&IR .
 .Ss \&DT
-Has no effect.
-Included for compatibility.
+Restore the default tabulator positions.
+They are at intervals of 0.5 inches.
+This has no effect unless the tabulator positions were changed with the
+.Xr roff 7
+.Ic \&ta
+request.
 .Ss \&EE
 This is a non-standard GNU extension, included only for compatibility.
 In
@@ -708,12 +710,6 @@ It has the following syntax:
 link description to be shown
 .Pf \. Sx UE
 .Ed
-.Ss \&br
-Breaks the current line.
-Consecutive invocations have no further effect.
-.Pp
-See also
-.Sx \&sp .
 .Ss \&fi
 End literal mode begun by
 .Sx \&nf .
@@ -727,8 +723,6 @@ If
 is signed, the new offset is relative.
 Otherwise, it is absolute.
 This value is reset upon the next paragraph, section, or sub-section.
-.Ss \&na
-Don't align to the right margin.
 .Ss \&nf
 Begin literal mode: all subsequent free-form lines have their end of
 line boundaries preserved.
@@ -738,24 +732,6 @@ Literal mode is implicitly ended by
 .Sx \&SH
 or
 .Sx \&SS .
-.Ss \&sp
-Insert vertical spaces into output with the following syntax:
-.Bd -filled -offset indent
-.Pf \. Sx \&sp
-.Op Ar height
-.Ed
-.Pp
-The
-.Ar height
-argument is a scaling width as described in
-.Xr roff 7 .
-If 0, this is equivalent to the
-.Sx \&br
-macro.
-Defaults to 1, if unspecified.
-.Pp
-See also
-.Sx \&br .
 .Sh MACRO SYNTAX
 The
 .Nm
@@ -779,11 +755,7 @@ is equivalent to
 .Sq \&.I foo .
 If next-line macros are invoked consecutively, only the last is used.
 If a next-line macro is followed by a non-next-line macro, an error is
-raised, except for
-.Sx \&br ,
-.Sx \&sp ,
-and
-.Sx \&na .
+raised.
 .Pp
 The syntax is as follows:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -811,12 +783,9 @@ The syntax is as follows:
 .It Sx \&SM  Ta    n         Ta    next-line Ta    \&
 .It Sx \&TH  Ta    >1, <6    Ta    current   Ta    \&
 .It Sx \&UC  Ta    <=1       Ta    current   Ta    \&
-.It Sx \&br  Ta    0         Ta    current   Ta    compat
 .It Sx \&fi  Ta    0         Ta    current   Ta    compat
 .It Sx \&in  Ta    1         Ta    current   Ta    compat
-.It Sx \&na  Ta    0         Ta    current   Ta    compat
 .It Sx \&nf  Ta    0         Ta    current   Ta    compat
-.It Sx \&sp  Ta    1         Ta    current   Ta    compat
 .El
 .Pp
 Macros marked as
@@ -898,53 +867,6 @@ until the end of the macro scope.
 Note that macros like
 .Sx \&BR
 open and close a font scope for each argument.
-.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-This section mentions some areas of questionable portability between
-implementations of the
-.Nm
-language.
-More incompatibilities exist.
-.Pp
-.Bl -dash -compact
-.It
-Do not depend on
-.Sx \&SH
-or
-.Sx \&SS
-to close out a literal context opened with
-.Sx \&nf .
-This behaviour may not be portable.
-.It
-troff suppresses a newline before
-.Sq \(aq
-macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard
-.Sq \&.
-control character.
-.It
-In page header lines, GNU troff versions up to and including 1.21
-only print
-.Ar volume
-names explicitly specified in the
-.Sx \&TH
-macro; mandoc and newer groff print the default volume name
-corresponding to the
-.Ar section
-number when no
-.Ar volume
-is given, like in
-.Xr mdoc 7 .
-.El
-.Pp
-The
-.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
 .Xr man 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,