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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.265 2017/06/10 16:32:27 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.270 2017/10/23 13:54:41 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: June 10 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 23 2017 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ in the alphabetical
 .It Sx \&Sm Ta switch horizontal spacing mode: Op Cm on | off
 .It Sx \&Bk , \&Ek Ta keep block: Fl words
 .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)
@@ -488,7 +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)
@@ -509,7 +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
@@ -674,12 +674,10 @@ Examples:
 .Ss \&Ao
 Begin a block enclosed by angle brackets.
 Does not have any head arguments.
-.Pp
-Examples:
-.Dl \&.Fl -key= \&Ns \&Ao \&Ar val \&Ac
-.Pp
-See also
-.Sx \&Aq .
+This macro is almost never useful.
+See
+.Sx \&Aq
+for more details.
 .Ss \&Ap
 Inserts an apostrophe without any surrounding whitespace.
 This is generally used as a grammatical device when referring to the verb
@@ -689,19 +687,45 @@ Examples:
 .Dl \&.Fn execve \&Ap d
 .Ss \&Aq
 Encloses its arguments in angle brackets.
+The only important use case is for email addresses.
+See
+.Sx \&Mt
+for an example.
 .Pp
-Examples:
-.Dl \&.Fl -key= \&Ns \&Aq \&Ar val
+Occasionally, it is used for names of characters and keys, for example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+Press the
+\&.Aq escape
+key to ...
+.Ed
 .Pp
-.Em Remarks :
-this macro is often abused for rendering URIs, which should instead use
+For URIs, use
 .Sx \&Lk
+instead, and
+.Sx \&In
+for
+.Dq #include
+directives.
+Never wrap
+.Sx \&Ar
+in
+.Sx \&Aq .
+.Pp
+Since
+.Sx \&Aq
+usually renders with non-ASCII characters in non-ASCII output modes,
+do not use it where the ASCII characters
+.Sq <
+and
+.Sq >
+are required as syntax elements.
+Instead, use these characters directly in such cases, combining them
+with the macros
+.Sx \&Pf ,
+.Sx \&Ns ,
 or
-.Sx \&Mt ,
-or to note pre-processor
-.Dq Li #include
-statements, which should use
-.Sx \&In .
+.Sx \&Eo
+as needed.
 .Pp
 See also
 .Sx \&Ao .
@@ -1850,10 +1874,10 @@ 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
@@ -2575,11 +2599,6 @@ 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
@@ -3203,7 +3222,7 @@ but produces large indentations.
 .Xr tbl 7
 .Pp
 The web page
-.Lk http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mdoc/ "extended documentation for the mdoc language"
+.Lk http://mandoc.bsd.lv/mdoc/ "extended documentation for the mdoc language"
 provides a few tutorial-style pages for beginners, an extensive style
 guide for advanced authors, and an alphabetic index helping to choose
 the best macros for various kinds of content.