=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.7,v retrieving revision 1.81 retrieving revision 1.82 diff -u -p -r1.81 -r1.82 --- mandoc/man.7 2010/08/06 17:07:11 1.81 +++ mandoc/man.7 2010/08/22 14:54:29 1.82 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.81 2010/08/06 17:07:11 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.82 2010/08/22 14:54:29 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 6 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 22 2010 $ .Dt MAN 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -917,24 +917,39 @@ language. .Pp .Bl -dash -compact .It -The \es (font size), \em (font colour), and \eM (font filling colour) -font decoration escapes are all discarded in mandoc. -.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 , +and +.Sq \es +.Pq text size +.Sx Text Decoration +escapes 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 -The -.Sq \(aq -macro control character, in GNU troff (and prior troffs) suppresses a -newline before macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard -.Sq \&. -control character. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mandoc 1 ,