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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-01-30 16:05:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-01-30 16:05:37 +0000 |
| commit | 45f655402ed9aece7ea3dfffb8007a8c753d6f4a (patch) | |
| tree | a5347280c09b16427b521363bd2553cffd890bf8 /mandoc_char.7 | |
| parent | 640a3cb4e4b0817868c63e57d68bbbf3229fb254 (diff) | |
| download | mandoc-45f655402ed9aece7ea3dfffb8007a8c753d6f4a.tar.gz | |
Implement the \N'number' (numbered character) roff escape sequence.
Don't use it in new manuals, it is inherently non-portable, but we
need it for backward-compatibility with existing manuals, for example
in Xenocara driver pages.
ok kristaps@ jmc@ and tested by Matthieu Herrb (matthieu at openbsd dot org)
Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc_char.7')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index a2fc091a..b7372d26 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -513,6 +513,21 @@ implementations: .It \e*(aa Ta \*(aa Ta acute .It \e*(ga Ta \*(ga Ta grave .El +.Sh NUMBERED CHARACTERS +For backward compatibility with existing manuals, +.Xr mandoc 1 +also supports the +.Pp +.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +.Pp +escape sequence, inserting the character +.Ar number +from the current character set into the output. +Of course, this is inherently non-portable and is already marked +as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual. +For example, do not use \eN'34', use \e(dq, or even the plain +.Sq \(dq +character where possible. .Sh COMPATIBILITY This section documents compatibility of .Nm |