Stripping out of `\w' groff escape. Yet another for pod2man...

4 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index 52a8917b..ef8b6de6 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -938,11 +938,12 @@ The
 .Pq text filling colour ,
 .Sq \ez
 .Pq zero-length character ,
+.Sq \ew
+.Pq string length ,
 and
 .Sq \es
 .Pq text size
-.Sx Text Decoration
-escapes are all discarded in mandoc.
+escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc.
 .It
 The
 .Sq \ef
diff --git a/mandoc.c b/mandoc.c
index cd12a966..0be9c287 100644
--- a/mandoc.c
+++ b/mandoc.c
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ mandoc_special(char *p)
 		/* FALLTHROUGH */
 	case ('x'):
 		/* FALLTHROUGH */
-	case ('w'):
-		/* FALLTHROUGH */
 	case ('S'):
 		/* FALLTHROUGH */
 	case ('R'):
@@ -178,6 +176,12 @@ mandoc_special(char *p)
 			return(*p ? (int)(p - sv) : 0);
 		}
 		break;
+	case ('w'):
+		if ('\'' == *p++) {
+			term = '\'';
+			break;
+		}
+		/* FALLTHROUGH */
 	default:
 		len = 1;
 		p--;
diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 1cc2a0bf..0e7b7dae 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -2846,11 +2846,12 @@ The
 .Pq text filling colour ,
 .Sq \ez
 .Pq zero-length character ,
+.Sq \ew
+.Pq string length ,
 and
 .Sq \es
 .Pq text size
-.Sx Text Decoration
-escapes are all discarded in mandoc.
+escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc.
 .It
 The
 .Sq \ef
diff --git a/out.c b/out.c
index fa3049e0..7ec42e68 100644
--- a/out.c
+++ b/out.c
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ a2roffdeco(enum roffdeco *d, const char **word, size_t *sz)
 		} else
 			lim = 1;
 		break;
+	case ('w'):
+		if ('\'' == wp[i++]) {
+			term = '\'';
+			break;
+		} 
+		/* FALLTHROUGH */
 	default:
 		*d = DECO_SSPECIAL;
 		i--;