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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-08-13 12:15:58 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-08-13 12:15:58 +0000
commitfb03acbc5fea24978190703b547b408b3fa45664 (patch)
tree324beea82a1a03548cd8704eaf8cc753b83d4ee9 /man.7
parent1aa6cc37dcc72475cfe4c2a003d11b606284f790 (diff)
downloadmandoc-fb03acbc5fea24978190703b547b408b3fa45664.tar.gz
Added full `HP' libman macro support.
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index c66ee98e..b5be3aa2 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ and
This section is a canonical reference to all macros, arranged
alphabetically. For the scoping of individual macros, see
.Sx MACRO SYNTAX .
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It \&B
Text is rendered in bold face.
.It \&BI
@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ render in italics. Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output.
Text is rendered alternately in bold face and roman (the default font).
Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output.
.It \&HP
+Begin a paragraph whose initial output line is left-justified, but
+subsequent output lines are indented.
.\" TODO.
.It \&I
Text is rendered in italics.
@@ -363,9 +365,23 @@ macro.
.El
.\" SECTION
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-See
-.Xr mdoc 7
-for groff compatibility notes.
+This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at
+this time limited to
+.Xr groff 1 .
+.Bl -hyphen
+.It
+In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a
+standalone double-quote in formatted output. This idiosyncratic
+behaviour is no longer applicable.
+.It
+The
+.Sq \&sp
+macro does not accept negative numbers.
+.It
+Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text
+lines (except when in literal mode), while groff would retain whitespace
+in free-form text lines.
+.El
.\" SECTION
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mandoc 1 ,
@@ -374,7 +390,7 @@ for groff compatibility notes.
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
-utility was written by
+reference was written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
.\" SECTION
.Sh CAVEATS