Fixed typo in Makefile.

Added initial scaling-units section in mdoc.7.

2 files changed, 62 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7164d040..73f2835a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ mandoc: $(MAINOBJS) libmdoc.a libman.a
 .1.1.txt .3.3.txt .7.7.txt:
 	./mandoc $(MANDOCFLAGS) $< | col -b > $@
 
-.1.1.sgml 3.3.sgml .7.7.sgml:
+.1.1.sgml .3.3.sgml .7.7.sgml:
 	./mandoc $(MANDOCFLAGS) $(MANDOCHTML) $< > $@
 
 .tar.gz.md5:
diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 3f8336d1..cb35218e 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ whitespace are stripped from input.
 .
 .Ss Reserved Characters
 Within a macro line, the following characters are reserved:
+.Pp
 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
 .It \&.
 .Pq period
@@ -208,6 +209,59 @@ considered literal text.  Thus, the following produces
 .Pp
 In free-form mode, quotes are regarded as opaque text.
 .
+.Ss Scaling Widths
+Many macros support scaled widths for their arguments, such as
+stipulating a two-inch list indentation with the following:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Bl -tag -width 2i
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The syntax for scaled widths is
+.Sq Li [+-]?[0-9]*.[0-9]*[unit] ,
+where a decimal must be preceded or proceeded by at least one digit.
+Negative numbers, while accepted, are truncated to zero.  The following
+scaling units are accepted:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
+.It c
+centimetre
+.It i
+inch
+.It P
+pica (~1/6 inch)
+.It p
+point (~1/72 inch)
+.It f
+synonym for
+.Sq u
+.It v
+default vertical span
+.It m
+width of rendered
+.Sq m
+.Pq em
+character
+.It n
+width of rendered
+.Sq n
+.Pq en
+character
+.It u
+default horizontal span
+.It M
+mini-em (~1/100 em)
+.El
+.Pp
+Using anything other than
+.Sq m ,
+.Sq n ,
+.Sq u ,
+or
+.Sq v
+is necessarily non-portable across output media.  See
+.Sx COMPATIBILITY .
+.
 .
 .Sh MANUAL STRUCTURE
 Each
@@ -545,6 +599,13 @@ file re-write
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+Negative scaling units are now truncated to zero instead of creating
+interesting conditions, such as with
+.Sq \&sp -1i .
+Furthermore, the
+.Sq f
+scaling unit, while accepted, is rendered as the default unit.
+.It
 The
 .Sq \-split
 or