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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.145 2020/02/18 17:31:28 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.147 2020/10/28 15:31:37 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2020 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 28 2020 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -612,16 +612,32 @@ The
 language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting
 system in
 .At v7 .
-It was later rewritten by James Clark as a macro package for groff.
-Eric S. Raymond wrote the extended
-.Nm
-macros for groff in 2007.
+.Pp
 The stand-alone implementation that is part of the
 .Xr mandoc 1
-utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in
+utility first appeared in
 .Ox 4.6 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
-This
+.An -nosplit
+.An Douglas McIlroy Aq Mt m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu
+designed and implemented the original version of these macros,
+wrote the original version of this manual page,
+and was the first to use them when he edited volume 1 of the
+.At v7
+manual pages.
+.Pp
+.An James Clark
+later rewrote the macros for groff.
+.An Eric S. Raymond Aq Mt esr@thyrsus.com
+and
+.An Werner Lemberg Aq Mt wl@gnu.org
+added the extended
 .Nm
-reference was written by
+macros to groff in 2007.
+.Pp
+The
+.Xr mandoc 1
+program and this
+.Nm
+reference were written by
 .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .