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version 1.73, 2010/07/25 11:44:31

version 1.76, 2010/08/18 08:41:40

Line 374 To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

This section summarises

.Nm

compatibility with

compatibility with GNU troff.

.Xr groff 1 .

Each input and output format is separately noted.

.Ss ASCII Compatibility

.Bl -bullet -compact

.It

The

.Sq \e~

special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in

.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .

.It

The

.Sq \&Bd \-literal

and

.Sq \&Bd \-unfilled

Line 395 in

Line 389 in

.Fl T Ns Cm ascii

are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.

.It

In GNU troff, the

.Xr groff 1 ,

the

.Sq \&Pa

.Xr mdoc 7

macro does not underline when scoped under an

Line 423 has no effect.

Line 415 has no effect.

.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;

.Xr groff 1

retains spaces.

.It

Sentences are unilaterally monospaced.

.El

.Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility

Line 489 which is usually 1024 bytes.

Line 476 which is usually 1024 bytes.

Be aware of this when setting long link

formats such as

.Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .

.Pp

The

.Fl T Ns Cm html

and

.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml

output modes don't render the

.Sq \es

font size escape documented in

.Xr mdoc 7

and

.Xr man 7 .

.Pp

Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of

.Fl m Ns Cm an ,

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