=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.257 retrieving revision 1.263 diff -u -p -r1.257 -r1.263 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2022/04/24 13:38:46 1.257 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2022/08/02 12:02:28 1.263 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.257 2022/04/24 13:38:46 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.263 2022/08/02 12:02:28 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2022 Ingo Schwarze .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 24 2022 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 2 2022 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -342,7 +342,6 @@ and may exceed the output width. Output produced by .Fl T Cm html conforms to HTML5 using optional self-closing tags. -Default styles use only CSS1. Equations rendered from .Xr eqn 7 blocks use MathML. @@ -1474,10 +1473,8 @@ A .Ic \&Bl , .Ic \&D1 , .Ic \&Dl , -.Ic \&MT , -.Ic \&RS , or -.Ic \&UR +.Ic \&RS block contains nothing in its body and will produce no output. .It Sy "empty argument, using 0n" .Pq mdoc @@ -1754,6 +1751,15 @@ request or a layout modifier has an unknown .Ar font argument. +.It Sy "ignoring distance argument" +.Pq roff +In addition to the margin character, an +.Ic \&mc +request has a second argument supposed to represent a distance, but the +.Nm +implementation of +.Ic \&mc +always ignores the second argument. .It Sy "odd number of characters in request" .Pq roff A @@ -1788,23 +1794,10 @@ it is hard to predict which tab stop position the tab .Pq mdoc A new sentence starts in the middle of a text line. Start it on a new input line to help formatters produce correct spacing. -.It Sy "invalid escape sequence" +.It Sy "invalid escape sequence argument" .Pq roff -An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the -closing argument delimiter, the argument is of an invalid form, or it is -a character escape sequence with an invalid name. -If the argument is incomplete, -.Ic \e* -and -.Ic \en -expand to an empty string, -.Ic \eB -to the digit -.Sq 0 , -and -.Ic \ew -to the length of the incomplete argument. -All other invalid escape sequences are ignored. +The argument of an escape sequence is of an invalid form. +Invalid escape sequences are ignored. .It Sy "undefined escape, printing literally" .Pq roff In an escape sequence, the first character @@ -2124,6 +2117,13 @@ The first argument of a request is neither a single ASCII character nor a single character escape sequence. The request is ignored including all its arguments. +.It Sy "skipping unusable escape sequence" +.Pq roff +The first argument of an +.Ic mc +request is neither a single ASCII character +nor a single character escape sequence. +All arguments are ignored and printing of a margin character is disabled. .It Sy "missing manual name, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq mdoc The first call to @@ -2268,6 +2268,60 @@ or with invalid arguments .El The excess arguments are ignored. +.El +.Ss "Errors related to escape sequences" +.Bl -ohang +.It Sy "incomplete escape sequence" +.Pq roff +The end of the input line is encountered +while parsing the argument of an escape sequence. +In this case, +.Ic \e* +and +.Ic \en +expand to an empty string, +.Ic \eB +to the digit +.Sq 0 , +and +.Ic \ew +to the length of the incomplete argument. +All other incomplete escape sequences are ignored. +.It Sy "invalid special character" +.Pq roff +A special character escape sequence is invalid, +for example a Unicode sequence pointing to a surrogate +or beyond the Unicode range, a \e[char...] escape sequence +representing a control character or pointing beyond the +.Vt unsigned char +range, or an invalid variable-length form +of a single-byte character escape sequence, for example writing +.Qq \e[e] +or +.Qq \e[~] +instead of +.Qq \ee +or +.Qq \e~ , +respectively. +The escape sequence is ignored. +.It Sy "unknown special character" +.Pq roff +The name given in a special character escape sequence is not known to +.Nm . +The escape sequence is ignored. +.It Sy "invalid escape argument delimiter" +.Pq roff +An escape sequence that expects a numerical argument +attempts to employ one of the characters +.Qq " %&()*+-./0123456789:<=>" +as an argument delimiter. +The escape sequence is ignored including the invalid opening delimiter +and the rest of the argument may appear as output text. +While various characters can be used as argument delimiters, +using the apostrophe-quote character +.Pq Sq \(aq +is recommended for readability and robustness. .El .Ss Unsupported features .Bl -ohang