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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-06-22 17:07:06 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-06-22 17:07:06 +0000
commit57620fc93fe93f5eebaa896a2af6332119578275 (patch)
treeb4bdfe95cdb4126b526d080d7dd6fe84cf175b86 /mdoc.7
parent96c18d05c29c65d9622ee2223e8caa5925696f91 (diff)
downloadmandoc-57620fc93fe93f5eebaa896a2af6332119578275.tar.gz
Minimal COMPATIBILITY cleanup:
* Mention that the list is incomplete. * I implemented %C for groff -current, and it was accepted. * Font family is \F, not \f. * Escapes and scaling widths are documented in roff(7), not here. * Quoting quotes by doubling them is now supported.
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@@ -3139,8 +3139,9 @@ Manually switching the font using the
.Ql \ef
font escape sequences is never required.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other
-troff implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff
+This section provides an incomplete list of compatibility issues
+between mandoc and other troff implementations, at this time limited
+to GNU troff
.Pq Qq groff .
The term
.Qq historic groff
@@ -3249,7 +3250,7 @@ certain list types.
can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line.
.It
.Sx \&%C
-is not implemented.
+is not implemented (up to and including groff-1.22.2).
.It
Historic groff only allows up to eight or nine arguments per macro input
line, depending on the exact situation.
@@ -3267,7 +3268,7 @@ in new groff and mandoc.
.Sq \ef
.Pq font face
and
-.Sq \ef
+.Sq \eF
.Pq font family face
.Sx Text Decoration
escapes behave irregularly when specified within line-macro scopes.
@@ -3289,36 +3290,6 @@ and
.Fl offset Cm right .
Groff does not implement centred and flush-right rendering either,
but produces large indentations.
-.It
-The
-.Sq \eh
-.Pq horizontal position ,
-.Sq \ev
-.Pq vertical position ,
-.Sq \em
-.Pq text colour ,
-.Sq \eM
-.Pq text filling colour ,
-.Sq \ez
-.Pq zero-length character ,
-.Sq \ew
-.Pq string length ,
-.Sq \ek
-.Pq horizontal position marker ,
-.Sq \eo
-.Pq text overstrike ,
-and
-.Sq \es
-.Pq text size
-escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc.
-.It
-The
-.Sq \ef
-scaling unit is accepted by mandoc, but rendered as the default unit.
-.It
-In quoted literals, groff allows pairwise double-quotes to produce a
-standalone double-quote in formatted output.
-This is not supported by mandoc.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 1 ,