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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mdoc.7,v
retrieving revision 1.76
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -u -p -r1.76 -r1.77
--- mandoc/mdoc.7	2009/11/09 05:11:46	1.76
+++ mandoc/mdoc.7	2009/11/12 05:50:12	1.77
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.76 2009/11/09 05:11:46 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.77 2009/11/12 05:50:12 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 9 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 12 2009 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .
@@ -137,7 +137,17 @@ escape followed by an indicator: B (bold), I, (italic)
 .D1 \efBbold\efR \efIitalic\efP
 .Pp
 A numerical representation 3, 2, or 1 (bold, italic, and Roman,
-respectively) may be used instead.
+respectively) may be used instead.  A text decoration is valid within
+the current font scope only:  if a macro opens a font scope alongside
+its own scope, such as
+.Sx \&Bf 
+.Cm \&Sy ,
+in-scope invocations of
+.Sq \ef
+are only valid within the font scope of the macro.  If
+.Sq \ef
+is specified outside of any font scope, such as in unenclosed, free-form
+text, it will affect the remainder of the document.
 .Pp
 Text may also be sized with the
 .Sq \es
@@ -1820,9 +1830,16 @@ file re-write
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+.Xr groff 1
+behaves strangely (even between versions) when specifying
+.Sq \ef
+escapes within line-macro scopes.  These aberrations have been
+normalised.
+.It
 Negative scaling units are now truncated to zero instead of creating
 interesting conditions, such as with
-.Sq \&sp -1i .
+.Sx \&sp 
+.Cm \-1i .
 Furthermore, the
 .Sq f
 scaling unit, while accepted, is rendered as the default unit.
@@ -1832,7 +1849,8 @@ standalone double-quote in formatted output.  This idi
 behaviour is no longer applicable.
 .It
 Display types
-.Sx \&Bd Fl center
+.Sx \&Bd 
+.Fl center
 and
 .Fl right
 are aliases for
@@ -1862,7 +1880,8 @@ made historic groff
 .Qq go orbital
 but is a proper delimiter in this implementation.
 .It
-.Sx \&It Fl nested
+.Sx \&It 
+.Fl nested
 is assumed for all lists (it wasn't in historic groff): any list may be
 nested and
 .Fl enum