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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -p -r1.19 -r1.24
--- mandoc/mandoc.1	2009/06/15 09:35:16	1.19
+++ mandoc/mandoc.1	2009/07/06 09:34:29	1.24
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.19 2009/06/15 09:35:16 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.24 2009/07/06 09:34:29 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -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: June 15 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 6 2009 $
 .Dt MANDOC 1
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -60,15 +60,11 @@ for available formats.  Defaults to
 Print version and exit.
 .\" ITEM
 .It Fl W Ns Ar err...
-Print warning messages.  May be set to 
+Configure warning messages.  Use
 .Fl W Ns Ar all
-for all warnings, 
-.Ar compat
-for groff/troff-compatibility warnings, or
-.Ar syntax
-for syntax warnings.  If
+to print warnings,
 .Fl W Ns Ar error 
-is specified, warnings are considered errors and cause utility
+for warnings to be considered errors and cause utility
 termination.  Multiple 
 .Fl W
 arguments may be comma-separated, such as
@@ -98,19 +94,19 @@ were provided.
 .Pp
 .Ex -std mandoc
 .\" SUB-SECTION
-.Ss Punctuation
+.Ss Punctuation and Spacing
 If punctuation is set apart from words, such as in the phrase
 .Dq to be \&, or not to be ,
 it's processed by
 .Nm
-according to the following rules.  Opening punctuation
+according to the following rules:  opening punctuation
 .Po
 .Sq \&( , 
 .Sq \&[ , 
 and
 .Sq \&{
 .Pc 
-is not followed by a space. Closing punctuation
+is not followed by a space; closing punctuation
 .Po
 .Sq \&. , 
 .Sq \&, , 
@@ -128,6 +124,15 @@ is not preceded by whitespace.
 If the input is
 .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate.
+.Pp
+White-space, in non-literal (normal) mode, is stripped from input and
+replaced on output by a single space.  Thus, if you wish to preserve
+multiple spaces, they must be space-escaped
+.Sq \e\ 
+or used in a literal display mode, e.g., 
+.Sq \&.Bd \-literal 
+in 
+.Xr mdoc 7 .
 .\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Input Formats
 The
@@ -210,16 +215,18 @@ flag.
 When rewinding the scope of a block macro, forces the compiler to ignore
 scope violations.  This can seriously mangle the resulting tree.
 .Pq mdoc only
-.It Fl f Ns Ar ign-escape
-Ignore invalid escape sequences.
-.It Fl f Ns Ar ign-macro
-Ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines (default for 
-.Xr man 7
-parsing).
+.It Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-escape
+Don't ignore invalid escape sequences.
 .It Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-macro
-Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines (default for 
-.Xr mdoc 7
-parsing).
+Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines.
+.It Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-chars
+Do not ignore disallowed characters.
+.It Fl f Ns Ar strict
+Implies 
+.Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-escape ,
+.Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-macro 
+and
+.Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-chars . 
 .El
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
@@ -228,22 +235,46 @@ As with the
 flag, multiple
 .Fl f
 options may be grouped and delimited with a comma.  Using
-.Fl f Ns Ar ign-scope,ign-escape ,
-for example, will try to ignore scope and character-escape errors.
+.Fl f Ns Ar ign-scope,no-ign-escape ,
+for example, will try to ignore scope and not ignore character-escape
+errors.
 .\" SECTION
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 To page manuals to the terminal:
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
-.D1 % mandoc \-Wall,error mandoc.1 2>&1 | less
-.Pp
+.D1 % mandoc \-Wall,error \-fstrict mandoc.1 2>&1 | less
 .D1 % mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
 .\" SECTION
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+This section summarises 
+.Nm
+compatibility with 
+.Xr groff 1 .
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It 
+A list or display following
+.Sq \&.Ss
+does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
+.Sq \&.Sh .
+.It
+The \-literal and \-unfilled 
+.Sq \&.Bd
+displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
+.It
+Words aren't hyphenated.
+.It
+In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved,
+so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space
+.Pq Dq French spacing .
+.El
+.\" SECTION
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
 .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 .Xr man 7
-.\" 
+.\" SECTION
 .Sh AUTHORS
 The
 .Nm
@@ -253,37 +284,7 @@ utility was written by 
 .Sh CAVEATS
 The 
 .Nm
-utility in
-.Fl T Ns Ar ascii
-mode doesn't yet know how to display the following:
+utility doesn't yet know how to display \-hang lists.
 .Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact
-.It
-The \-hang 
-.Sq \&.Bl
-list is not yet supported.
-.El
-.Pp
 Other macros still aren't supported by virtue of nobody complaining
-about their absence.  Please report any omissions: this is a work in
-progress.
-.Pp
-The following list documents differences between traditional
-.Xr nroff 1
-output and
-.Nm :
-.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact
-.It 
-A list of display following
-.Sq \&.Ss
-does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
-.Sq \&.Sh .
-.It
-Special characters don't follow the current font style.
-.\" LIST-ITEM
-.It
-The \-literal and \-unfilled 
-.Sq \&.Bd
-displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
-.El
+about their absence.