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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mdoc.7,v
retrieving revision 1.77
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -u -p -r1.77 -r1.79
--- mandoc/mdoc.7	2009/11/12 05:50:12	1.77
+++ mandoc/mdoc.7	2010/01/01 13:35:30	1.79
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.77 2009/11/12 05:50:12 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.79 2010/01/01 13:35:30 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 12 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2010 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ A numerical representation 3, 2, or 1 (bold, italic, a
 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 
+.Sx \&Bf
 .Cm \&Sy ,
 in-scope invocations of
 .Sq \ef
@@ -1596,6 +1596,22 @@ is provided.
 .Ss \&Fc
 .Ss \&Fd
 .Ss \&Fl
+Command-line flag.  Used when listing arguments to command-line
+utilities.  Prints a fixed-width hyphen
+.Sq \-
+before each delimited argument.  If no arguments are provided, a hyphen
+is still printed.
+.Pp
+Examples:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Fl a b c
+\&.Fl
+\&.Op Fl o Ns Ar file
+.Ed
+.Pp
+See also
+.Sx \&Cm .
+.
 .Ss \&Fn
 .Ss \&Fo
 .Ss \&Fr
@@ -1830,7 +1846,13 @@ file re-write
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+Historic 
 .Xr groff 1
+does not print a dash for empty 
+.Sx \&Fl
+arguments.  This behaviour has been discontinued.
+.It
+.Xr groff 1
 behaves strangely (even between versions) when specifying
 .Sq \ef
 escapes within line-macro scopes.  These aberrations have been
@@ -1838,7 +1860,7 @@ normalised.
 .It
 Negative scaling units are now truncated to zero instead of creating
 interesting conditions, such as with
-.Sx \&sp 
+.Sx \&sp
 .Cm \-1i .
 Furthermore, the
 .Sq f
@@ -1849,7 +1871,7 @@ standalone double-quote in formatted output.  This idi
 behaviour is no longer applicable.
 .It
 Display types
-.Sx \&Bd 
+.Sx \&Bd
 .Fl center
 and
 .Fl right
@@ -1880,7 +1902,7 @@ made historic groff
 .Qq go orbital
 but is a proper delimiter in this implementation.
 .It
-.Sx \&It 
+.Sx \&It
 .Fl nested
 is assumed for all lists (it wasn't in historic groff): any list may be
 nested and