Radical cleanup of COMPATIBILITY sections:

Remove lots of lies, dozens of irrelevant implementation details,
and all references to groff versions older than 1.17.  Move relevant
information to the pages where it belongs, and out of mandoc(1) in
particular.  Add some missing general remarks to roff(7), where it
fits the character and purpose of the page much better.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 47 deletions

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index 7311e707..9fda75b6 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -894,53 +894,6 @@ until the end of the macro scope.
 Note that macros like
 .Sx \&BR
 open and close a font scope for each argument.
-.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-This section mentions some areas of questionable portability between
-implementations of the
-.Nm
-language.
-More incompatibilities exist.
-.Pp
-.Bl -dash -compact
-.It
-Do not depend on
-.Sx \&SH
-or
-.Sx \&SS
-to close out a literal context opened with
-.Sx \&nf .
-This behaviour may not be portable.
-.It
-troff suppresses a newline before
-.Sq \(aq
-macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard
-.Sq \&.
-control character.
-.It
-In page header lines, GNU troff versions up to and including 1.21
-only print
-.Ar volume
-names explicitly specified in the
-.Sx \&TH
-macro; mandoc and newer groff print the default volume name
-corresponding to the
-.Ar section
-number when no
-.Ar volume
-is given, like in
-.Xr mdoc 7 .
-.El
-.Pp
-The
-.Sx EE ,
-.Sx EX ,
-.Sx OP ,
-.Sx UE ,
-and
-.Sx UR
-macros are part of the GNU extended
-.Nm
-macro set, and may not be portable to non-GNU troff implementations.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr man 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,