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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.36
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -p -r1.36 -r1.38
--- mandoc/roff.7	2011/11/23 02:12:24	1.36
+++ mandoc/roff.7	2012/06/12 19:50:50	1.38
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.36 2011/11/23 02:12:24 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.38 2012/06/12 19:50:50 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 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: November 23 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 12 2012 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ depends on the respective processing context.
 .Nm
 documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space
 character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character.
-The back-space character
+The backslash character
 .Sq \e
 indicates the start of an escape sequence for
 .Sx Comments ,
@@ -844,6 +844,22 @@ only accepts relative paths not containing the strings
 .Qq ../
 and
 .Qq /.. .
+.Pp
+This request requires
+.Xr man 1
+to change to the right directory before calling
+.Xr mandoc 1 ,
+per convention to the root of the manual tree.
+Typical usage looks like:
+.Pp
+.Dl \&.so man3/Xcursor.3
+.Pp
+As the whole concept is rather fragile, the use of
+.Sx \&so
+is discouraged.
+Use
+.Xr ln 1
+instead.
 .Ss \&ta
 Set tab stops.
 This line-scoped request can take an arbitrary number of arguments.