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version 1.35, 2011/11/21 22:19:23 version 1.41, 2013/07/13 19:41:16
Line 83  depends on the respective processing context.
Line 83  depends on the respective processing context.
 .Nm  .Nm
 documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space  documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space
 character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character.  character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character.
 The back-space character  The backslash character
 .Sq \e  .Sq \e
 indicates the start of an escape sequence for  indicates the start of an escape sequence for
 .Sx Comments ,  .Sx Comments ,
Line 417  The syntax of this request is the same as that of
Line 417  The syntax of this request is the same as that of
 It is currently ignored by  It is currently ignored by
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,  .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 as are its children.  as are its children.
   .Ss \&cc
   Changes the control character.
   Its syntax is as follows:
   .Bd -literal -offset indent
   .Pf . Cm \&cc Op Ar c
   .Ed
   .Pp
   If
   .Ar c
   is not specified, the control character is reset to
   .Sq \&. .
   Trailing characters are ignored.
 .Ss \&de  .Ss \&de
 Define a  Define a
 .Nm  .Nm
Line 844  only accepts relative paths not containing the strings
Line 856  only accepts relative paths not containing the strings
 .Qq ../  .Qq ../
 and  and
 .Qq /.. .  .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  .Ss \&ta
 Set tab stops.  Set tab stops.
 This line-scoped request can take an arbitrary number of arguments.  This line-scoped request can take an arbitrary number of arguments.
Line 880  See
Line 908  See
 .Xr tbl 7  .Xr tbl 7
 for a description of the tbl language.  for a description of the tbl language.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY  .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other other  This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other
 .Nm  .Nm
 implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff  implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff
 .Pq Qq groff .  .Pq Qq groff .
Line 952  Saltzer in 1964.
Line 980  Saltzer in 1964.
 Doug McIlroy rewrote it in BCPL in 1969, renaming it  Doug McIlroy rewrote it in BCPL in 1969, renaming it
 .Nm .  .Nm .
 Dennis M. Ritchie rewrote McIlroy's  Dennis M. Ritchie rewrote McIlroy's
 .Nm  .Nm
 in PDP-11 assmebly for  in PDP-11 assembly for
 .At v1 ,  .At v1 ,
 Joseph F. Ossanna improved roff and renamed it nroff  Joseph F. Ossanna improved roff and renamed it nroff
 for  for
Line 966  In 1989, James Clarke re-implemented troff in C++, nam
Line 994  In 1989, James Clarke re-implemented troff in C++, nam
 This  This
 .Nm  .Nm
 reference was written by  reference was written by
 .An Kristaps Dzonsons ,  .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
 .Mt kristaps@bsd.lv ;  
 and  and
 .An Ingo Schwarze ,  .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .
 .Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .  
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