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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-03-23 09:42:43 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-03-23 09:42:43 +0000
commitd4dba4479e3ed55fdc52b75eab00afe7ad78d5f0 (patch)
treeae9b30bcd618bab055dabba5c292db8a142e9e5f /mandoc.1
parentb3abf1d9e473d326d2a09cdee5eda0bb4f0234ce (diff)
downloadmandoc-d4dba4479e3ed55fdc52b75eab00afe7ad78d5f0.tar.gz
More manual documentation fixed/improved.
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
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+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -118,14 +118,19 @@ and
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
-Note that reserved words may occur in streams of text, so the following:
+Note that reserved words only register as such as if they appear as
+standalone tokens, either in parsed lines or streams of text. Thus, the
+following fragment:
.Bd -literal -offset XXXX
this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man
.Ed
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
\&...correctly adjusts the comma spacing to
-.Qq this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man .
+.Dq this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man .
+However, if the comma were part of
+.Dq ,empirically ,
+it would not.
.\" SUB-SECTION
.Ss Output Formats
The
@@ -193,18 +198,28 @@ mode doesn't yet know how to display the following:
The \-hang
.Sq \&Bl
list is not yet supported.
+.El
+.Pp
+Other macros still aren't supported by virtue of nobody complaining
+about their absence. Please report any omissions: this is a work in
+progress.
+.Pp
+The following list documents differences between traditional
+.Xr nroff 1
+output and
+.Nm :
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+A list of display following
+.Sq \&Ss
+does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
+.Sq \&Sh .
+.It
+Special characters don't follow the current font style.
.\" LIST-ITEM
.It
The \-literal and \-unfilled
.Sq \&Bd
displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
-.\" LIST-ITEM
-.It
-The
-.Sq \&Bd
-macro doesn't process \-compact .
.El
-.Pp
-Other macros still aren't supported by virtue of nobody complaining
-about their absence. Please report any omissions: this is a work in
-progress.