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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-08 01:52:40 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-08 01:52:40 +0000
commit3a7a3152ab8387923d3628e2346c3403210dfe7e (patch)
tree166b2b851ac13731dc612507621640325da287aa /mdoc.7
parent0e229bfea1c51c004f20a34dd37c99ba55d73603 (diff)
downloadmandoc-3a7a3152ab8387923d3628e2346c3403210dfe7e.tar.gz
some corrections and improvements with respect to prologue macros;
found while working on mandoc(1) messages
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@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ Close a
block.
Does not have any tail arguments.
.Ss \&Dd
-Document date.
+Document date for display in the page footer.
This is the mandatory first macro of any
.Nm
manual.
@@ -1224,8 +1224,11 @@ the special string
.Dq $\&Mdocdate$
can be given as an argument.
.It
-A few alternative date formats are accepted as well
-and converted to the standard form.
+The traditional, purely numeric
+.Xr man 7
+format
+.Ar year Ns \(en Ns Ar month Ns \(en Ns Ar day
+is accepted, too.
.It
If a date string cannot be parsed, it is used verbatim.
.It
@@ -1285,30 +1288,26 @@ See also
and
.Sx \&Do .
.Ss \&Dt
-Document title.
+Document title for display in the page header.
This is the mandatory second macro of any
.Nm
file.
Its syntax is as follows:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Pf \. Sx \&Dt
-.Oo
-.Ar title
-.Oo
+.Ar TITLE
.Ar section
-.Op Ar volume
-.Op Ar arch
-.Oc
-.Oc
+.Op Ar volume | arch
.Ed
.Pp
Its arguments are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset Ds
-.It Ar title
+.Bl -tag -width section -offset 2n
+.It Ar TITLE
The document's title (name), defaulting to
-.Dq UNKNOWN
+.Dq UNTITLED
if unspecified.
-It should be capitalised.
+To achieve a uniform appearance of page header lines,
+it should by convention be all caps.
.It Ar section
The manual section.
This may be one of
@@ -1346,8 +1345,7 @@ or
.Cm paper
.Pq paper .
It should correspond to the manual's filename suffix and defaults to
-.Cm 1
-if unspecified.
+the empty string if unspecified.
.It Ar volume
This overrides the volume inferred from
.Ar section .
@@ -2110,7 +2108,7 @@ Examples:
See also
.Sx \&Oo .
.Ss \&Os
-Document operating system version.
+Operating system version for display in the page footer.
This is the mandatory third macro of
any
.Nm