Modernised comment handling: text following \" is thrown away before

either parser is invoked.  Single-dot lines correctly handled.  This
confirms with both new- and old-groff.  "Comment" subsection added to
mdoc.7 and man.7.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index a1068f3c..480004f4 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ escape is common in historical
 documents; if encountered at the end of a word, it ensures that the
 subsequent word isn't off-set by whitespace.
 .\" SUB-SECTION
+.Ss Comments
+Anything following a
+.Sq \e" 
+delimiter is considered a comment (unless the 
+.Sq \e
+itself has been escaped) and is ignored to the end of line.
+Furthermore, a macro line with only a control character
+.Sq \. ,
+optionally followed by whitespace, is ignored.
+.\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Special Characters
 Special character sequences begin with the escape character
 .Sq \e