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Line 57 To produce other characters in the output, use the esc

documented in the

.Xr mandoc_char 7

manual.

.Pp

All manuals must have

.Ux

line terminators.

.Sh REQUEST SYNTAX

A request or macro line consists of:

.Pp

Line 86 Thus, the following request lines are all equivalent:

Line 82 Thus, the following request lines are all equivalent:

\&.ig end

\&. ig end

.Ed

.Sh MACRO SYNTAX

Macros can be defined by the

.Sx \&de

request.

When called, they follow the same syntax as requests, except that

macro arguments may optionally be quoted by enclosing them

in double quote characters

.Pq Sq \(dq .

To be recognized as the beginning of a quoted argument, the opening

quote character must be preceded by a space character.

.Pp

A quoted argument may contain whitespace, and pairs of double quote

characters

.Pq Sq Qq

resolve to single double quote characters.

A quoted argument extends to the next double quote character that is not

part of a pair, or to the end of the input line, whichever comes earlier.

Leaving out the terminating double quote character at the end of the line

is discouraged.

For clarity, if more arguments follow on the same input line,

it is recommended to follow the terminating double quote character

by a space character; in case the next character after the terminating

double quote character is anything else, it is regarded as the beginning

of the next, unquoted argument.

.Pp

Both in quoted and unquoted arguments, pairs of backslashes

.Pq Sq \e\e

resolve to single backslashes.

In unquoted arguments, space characters can alternatively be included

by preceding them with a backslash

.Pq Sq \e\~ ,

but quoting is usually better for clarity.

.Sh REQUEST REFERENCE

The

.Xr mandoc 1

Line 174 The macro can be invoked later using the syntax

Line 202 The macro can be invoked later using the syntax

.Pp

.D1 Pf . Ar name Op Ar argument Op Ar argument ...

.Pp

Arguments are separated by blank characters and can be quoted

Regarding argument parsing, see

using double-quotes

.Sx MACRO SYNTAX

.Pq Sq \(dq

above.

to allow inclusion of blank characters into arguments.

To include the double-quote character into a quoted argument,

escape it from ending the argument by doubling it.

.Pp

The line invoking the macro will be replaced

in the input stream by the

Line 319 then false is assumed.

Line 344 then false is assumed.

The syntax of this request is similar to

.Sx \&if

except that the conditional is missing.

.Ss \&EN

End an equation block.

See

.Sx \&EQ .

.Ss \&EQ

Begin an equation block.

See

.Xr eqn 7

for a description of the equation language.

.Ss \&hy

Set automatic hyphenation mode.

This line-scoped request is currently ignored.

Line 414 than having the request or macro follow as

Line 448 than having the request or macro follow as

The scope of a conditional is always parsed, but only executed if the

conditional evaluates to true.

.Pp

Note that text following an

Note that the

.Sq \&.\e}

escape sequence is discarded.

Furthermore, if an explicit closing sequence

.Sq \e}

is specified in a free-form line, the entire line is accepted within the

is converted into a zero-width escape sequence if not passed as a

scope of the prior request, not only the text preceding the close, with the

standalone macro

.Sq \&.\e} .

For example,

.Pp

.D1 \&.Fl a \e} b

.Pp

will result in

.Sq \e}

collapsing into a zero-width space.

being considered an argument of the

.Sq \&Fl

macro.

.Ss \&ig

Ignore input.

Its syntax can be either

Line 512 section with the

Line 551 section with the

.Cm \&Sh

macro will reset this register.

.El

.Ss \&ns

Turn on no-space mode.

This line-scoped request is intended to take no arguments.

Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,

and the number of arguments is not checked.

.Ss \&ps

Change point size.

This line-scoped request is intended to take one numerical argument.

Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,

and the number of arguments is not checked.

.Ss \&so

Include a source file.

Its syntax is as follows:

Line 523 The

Line 572 The

will be read and its contents processed as input in place of the

.Sq \&.so

request line.

To avoid inadvertant inclusion of unrelated files,

To avoid inadvertent inclusion of unrelated files,

.Xr mandoc 1

only accepts relative paths not containing the strings

.Qq ../

and

.Qq /.. .

.Ss \&ta

Set tab stops.

This line-scoped request can take an arbitrary number of arguments.

Currently, it is ignored including its arguments.

.Ss \&tr

Output character translation.

This request is intended to have one argument,

consisting of an even number of characters.

Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,

and the number of arguments is not checked.

.Ss \&T&

Re-start a table layout, retaining the options of the prior table

invocation.

See

.Sx \&TS .

.Ss \&TE

End a table context.

See

.Sx \&TS .

.Ss \&TS

Begin a table, which formats input in aligned rows and columns.

See

.Xr tbl 7

for a description of the tbl language.

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other other

.Nm

Line 546 refers to groff version 1.15.

Line 613 refers to groff version 1.15.

.Pp

.Bl -dash -compact

.It

In mandoc, the

.Sx \&EQ ,

.Sx \&TE ,

.Sx \&TS ,

and

.Sx \&T& ,

macros are considered regular macros.

In all other

.Nm

implementations, these are special macros that must be specified without

spacing between the control character (which must be a period) and the

macro name.

.It

The

.Cm nS

Line 563 using the next-line syntax.

Line 643 using the next-line syntax.

.El

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr mandoc 1 ,

.Xr eqn 7 ,

.Xr man 7 ,

.Xr mandoc_char 7 ,

.Xr mdoc 7

.Xr mdoc 7 ,

.Xr tbl 7

.Rs

.%A Joseph F. Ossanna

.%A Brian W. Kernighan

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