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version 1.178, 2017/03/08 19:40:59

Line 465 input to the

format conforming to

"John Gruber's 2004 specification" .

The output also almost conforms to the

specification.

.Pp

The character set used for the markdown output is ASCII.

Non-ASCII characters are encoded as HTML entities.

Since that is not possible in literal font contexts, because these

are rendered as code spans and code blocks in the markdown output,

non-ASCII characters are transliterated to ASCII approximations in

these contexts.

.Pp

Markdown is a very weak markup language, so all semantic markup is

lost, and even part of the presentational markup may be lost.

Do not use this as an intermediate step in converting to HTML;

Line 908 The

Line 918 The

.Ic \&Nd

macro lacks the required argument.

The title line of the manual will end after the dash.

.It Sy "description line outside NAME section"

.Pq mdoc

.Ic \&Nd

macro appears outside the NAME section.

The arguments are printed anyway and the following text is used for

.Xr apropos 1 ,

but none of that behaviour is portable.

.It Sy "sections out of conventional order"

.Pq mdoc

A standard section occurs after another section it usually precedes.