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version 1.228, 2014/03/31 01:05:32

version 1.229, 2014/06/22 17:07:06

Line 3139 Manually switching the font using the

.Ql \ef

font escape sequences is never required.

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other

This section provides an incomplete list of compatibility issues

troff implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff

between mandoc and other troff implementations, at this time limited

to GNU troff

.Pq Qq groff .

The term

.Qq historic groff

Line 3249 certain list types.

Line 3250 certain list types.

can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line.

.It

.Sx \&%C

is not implemented.

is not implemented (up to and including groff-1.22.2).

.It

Historic groff only allows up to eight or nine arguments per macro input

line, depending on the exact situation.

Line 3267 in new groff and mandoc.

Line 3268 in new groff and mandoc.

.Sq \ef

.Pq font face

and

.Sq \ef

.Sq \eF

.Pq font family face

.Sx Text Decoration

escapes behave irregularly when specified within line-macro scopes.

Line 3289 and

Line 3290 and

.Fl offset Cm right .

Groff does not implement centred and flush-right rendering either,

but produces large indentations.

.It

The

.Sq \eh

.Pq horizontal position ,

.Sq \ev

.Pq vertical position ,

.Sq \em

.Pq text colour ,

.Sq \eM

.Pq text filling colour ,

.Sq \ez

.Pq zero-length character ,

.Sq \ew

.Pq string length ,

.Sq \ek

.Pq horizontal position marker ,

.Sq \eo

.Pq text overstrike ,

and

.Sq \es

.Pq text size

escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc.

.It

The

.Sq \ef

scaling unit is accepted by mandoc, but rendered as the default unit.

.It

In quoted literals, groff allows pairwise double-quotes to produce a

standalone double-quote in formatted output.

This is not supported by mandoc.

.El

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr man 1 ,

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