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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-03-16 23:37:28 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-03-16 23:37:28 +0000
commit3e12cc6290bbac37cb1fccf8c6bd8bce4e414a22 (patch)
treeb79248f7217c2351016c0f940488b24652ef3859 /mdoc.7
parent0f78a072b396e52a775bdbe9f6687c67bf1439bb (diff)
downloadmandoc-3e12cc6290bbac37cb1fccf8c6bd8bce4e414a22.tar.gz
Changed e-mail address to @openbsd.
Cleaned up manual-page documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'mdoc.7')
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 74b86a62..df79cc4a 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ of these macros.
.\" SECTION
.Sh CHARACTER ENCODING
.Nm
-documents may contain only printable alphanumeric characters, the space
-character
+documents may contain only printable characters, the space character
.Sq \ ,
and, in certain circumstances, the tab character
.Sq \et .
@@ -643,6 +642,7 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of arguments.
.It \&.Sy Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0
.It \&.Tn Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0
.It \&.Ux Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n
+.It \&.Dx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n
.It \&.Bt Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0
.It \&.Hf Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n
.It \&.Fr Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n
@@ -652,7 +652,17 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of arguments.
.It \&.Lp Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0
.It \&.Lk Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta >0
.It \&.Mt Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta >0
+.It \&.Es Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0
+.It \&.En Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0
.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Sq \&Ot ,
+.Sq \&Fr ,
+.Sq \&Es
+and
+.Sq \&En ,
+macros are obsolete.
.\" SECTION
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The mdoc language was traditionally a
@@ -718,7 +728,7 @@ is callable.
The
.Nm
utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@openbsd.org .
.\" SECTION
.Sh CAVEATS
There are several ambiguous parts of mdoc.
@@ -773,4 +783,12 @@ The
.Sq \&Dt
macro lacks clarity. It should be absolutely clear which title will
render when formatting the manual page.
+.\" LIST-ITEM
+.It
+A
+.Sq \&Lx
+should be provided for Linux (\(`a la
+.Sq \&Ox ,
+.Sq \&Nx
+etc.).
.El