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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2017-05-05 15:54:59 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2017-05-05 15:54:59 +0000
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Shorten the description of .sp and move it to roff(7).
If is not a macro but a low-level roff request and not recommended for use in manual pages.
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diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index 72037b44..b7f112e9 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -266,7 +266,6 @@ in the alphabetical reference below.
.It Sx TP Ta tagged paragraph: Op Ar width
.It Sx HP Ta hanged paragraph: Op Ar width
.It Sx PD Ta set vertical paragraph distance: Op Ar height
-.It Sx \&sp Ta force vertical space: Op Ar height
.It Sx fi , nf Ta fill mode and no-fill mode (no arguments)
.It Sx in Ta additional indent: Op Ar width
.El
@@ -707,12 +706,6 @@ It has the following syntax:
link description to be shown
.Pf \. Sx UE
.Ed
-.Ss \&br
-Breaks the current line.
-Consecutive invocations have no further effect.
-.Pp
-See also
-.Sx \&sp .
.Ss \&fi
End literal mode begun by
.Sx \&nf .
@@ -735,22 +728,6 @@ Literal mode is implicitly ended by
.Sx \&SH
or
.Sx \&SS .
-.Ss \&sp
-Insert vertical spaces into output with the following syntax:
-.Bd -filled -offset indent
-.Pf \. Sx \&sp
-.Op Ar height
-.Ed
-.Pp
-The
-.Ar height
-argument is a scaling width as described in
-.Xr roff 7 .
-If 0, this is equivalent to the
-.Xr roff 7
-.Ic \&br
-request.
-Defaults to 1, if unspecified.
.Sh MACRO SYNTAX
The
.Nm
@@ -774,8 +751,7 @@ is equivalent to
.Sq \&.I foo .
If next-line macros are invoked consecutively, only the last is used.
If a next-line macro is followed by a non-next-line macro, an error is
-raised, except for
-.Sx \&sp .
+raised.
.Pp
The syntax is as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -806,7 +782,6 @@ The syntax is as follows:
.It Sx \&fi Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat
.It Sx \&in Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat
.It Sx \&nf Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat
-.It Sx \&sp Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat
.El
.Pp
Macros marked as