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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.72
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -u -p -r1.72 -r1.74
--- mandoc/roff.7	2015/05/31 23:13:22	1.72
+++ mandoc/roff.7	2015/08/29 22:40:05	1.74
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.72 2015/05/31 23:13:22 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.74 2015/08/29 22:40:05 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -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: May 31 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 29 2015 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -665,6 +665,8 @@ produces
 .D1 \efI\e^XtFree\e^\efP.
 .Pp
 in the input stream, and thus in the output: \fI\^XtFree\^\fP.
+Each occurrence of \e\e$* is replaced with all the arguments,
+joined together with single blank characters.
 .Pp
 Since macros and user-defined strings share a common string table,
 defining a macro
@@ -1837,9 +1839,15 @@ For short names, there are variants
 .No \e* Ns Ar c
 and
 .No \e*( Ns Ar cc .
+.Ss \e,
+Left italic correction (groff extension); ignored by
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
 .Ss \e-
 Special character
 .Dq mathematical minus sign .
+.Ss \e/
+Right italic correction (groff extension); ignored by
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
 .Ss \e[ Ns Ar name ]
 .Sx Special Characters
 with names of arbitrary length, see