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+++ mandoc/mdoc.7	2017/07/05 12:25:17	1.268
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.260 2017/01/09 14:10:53 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.268 2017/07/05 12:25:17 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -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: January 9 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 5 2017 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -476,10 +476,8 @@ in the alphabetical
 .It Sx \&Ap Ta apostrophe without surrounding whitespace (no arguments)
 .It Sx \&Sm Ta switch horizontal spacing mode: Op Cm on | off
 .It Sx \&Bk , \&Ek Ta keep block: Fl words
-.It Sx \&br Ta force output line break in text mode (no arguments)
-.It Sx \&sp Ta force vertical space: Op Ar height
 .El
-.Ss Semantic markup for command line utilities:
+.Ss Semantic markup for command line utilities
 .Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description
 .It Sx \&Nm Ta start a SYNOPSIS block with the name of a utility
 .It Sx \&Fl Ta command line options (flags) (>=0 arguments)
@@ -490,7 +488,7 @@ in the alphabetical
 .It Sx \&Ev Ta environmental variable (>0 arguments)
 .It Sx \&Pa Ta file system path (>=0 arguments)
 .El
-.Ss Semantic markup for function libraries:
+.Ss Semantic markup for function libraries
 .Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description
 .It Sx \&Lb Ta function library (one argument)
 .It Sx \&In Ta include file (one argument)
@@ -511,7 +509,7 @@ in the alphabetical
 .It Sx \&Er Ta error constant (>0 arguments)
 .It Sx \&Ev Ta environmental variable (>0 arguments)
 .El
-.Ss Various semantic markup:
+.Ss Various semantic markup
 .Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description
 .It Sx \&An Ta author name (>0 arguments)
 .It Sx \&Lk Ta hyperlink: Ar uri Op Ar name
@@ -737,7 +735,7 @@ A version of
 .At .
 .It Cm III
 .At III .
-.It Cm V[.[1-4]]?
+.It Cm V | V.[1-4]
 A version of
 .At V .
 .El
@@ -974,10 +972,8 @@ argument.
 A columnated list.
 The
 .Fl width
-argument has no effect; instead, each argument specifies the width
-of one column, using either the scaling width syntax described in
-.Xr roff 7
-or the string length of the argument.
+argument has no effect; instead, the string length of each argument
+specifies the width of one column.
 If the first line of the body of a
 .Fl column
 list is not an
@@ -1854,10 +1850,10 @@ The tab cell delimiter may only be used within the
 .Sx \&It
 line itself; on following lines, only the
 .Sx \&Ta
-macro can be used to delimit cells, and
+macro can be used to delimit cells, and portability requires that
 .Sx \&Ta
-is only recognised as a macro when called by other macros,
-not as the first macro on a line.
+is called by other macros: some parsers do not recognize it when
+it appears as the first macro on a line.
 .Pp
 Note that quoted strings may span tab-delimited cells on an
 .Sx \&It
@@ -2579,11 +2575,6 @@ The second and last Technical Corrigendum.
 .br
 This standard is also called
 X/Open Portability Guide version 7.
-.Pp
-.It \-p1003.1-2013
-.St -p1003.1-2013
-.br
-This is the first Technical Corrigendum.
 .El
 .It Other standards
 .Pp
@@ -2738,29 +2729,6 @@ Examples:
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&;
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&Ns s behaviour
-.Ss \&br
-Emits a line-break.
-This macro should not be used; it is implemented for compatibility with
-historical manuals.
-.Pp
-Consider using
-.Sx \&Pp
-in the event of natural paragraph breaks.
-.Ss \&sp
-Emits vertical space.
-This macro should not be used; it is implemented for compatibility with
-historical manuals.
-Its syntax is as follows:
-.Pp
-.D1 Pf \. Sx \&sp Op Ar height
-.Pp
-The
-.Ar height
-argument is a scaling width as described in
-.Xr roff 7 .
-If unspecified,
-.Sx \&sp
-asserts a single vertical space.
 .Sh MACRO SYNTAX
 The syntax of a macro depends on its classification.
 In this section,
@@ -3045,8 +3013,6 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of argument
 .It Sx \&Va  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n
 .It Sx \&Vt  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
 .It Sx \&Xr  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    2
-.It Sx \&br  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    0
-.It Sx \&sp  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    1
 .El
 .Ss Delimiters
 When a macro argument consists of one single input character
@@ -3064,6 +3030,8 @@ For many macros, when the leading arguments are openin
 these delimiters are put before the macro scope,
 and when the trailing arguments are closing delimiters,
 these delimiters are put after the macro scope.
+Spacing is suppressed after opening delimiters
+and before closing delimiters.
 For example,
 .Pp
 .D1 Pf \. \&Aq "( [ word ] ) ."
@@ -3120,7 +3088,7 @@ renders as:
 .D1 Fl a ( b | c \*(Ba d ) e
 .Pp
 This applies to both opening and closing delimiters,
-and also to the middle delimiter:
+and also to the middle delimiter, which does not suppress spacing:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
 .It \&|