Get rid of the useless FATAL error "child violates parent syntax".

When finding items outside lists, simply skip them and throw an ERROR.
Handle subsections before the first section instead of bailing out.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mdoc_macro.c b/mdoc_macro.c
index 33dc1e8a..4baebd65 100644
--- a/mdoc_macro.c
+++ b/mdoc_macro.c
@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ rew_dohalt(enum mdoct tok, enum mdoc_type type,
 			return(REWIND_NONE);
 		/* FALLTHROUGH */
 	case MDOC_Sh:
+		if (MDOC_ROOT == p->parent->type)
+			return(REWIND_THIS);
 		if (MDOC_Nd == p->tok || MDOC_Ss == p->tok ||
 		    MDOC_Sh == p->tok)
 			return(REWIND_MORE);
@@ -1035,6 +1037,22 @@ blk_full(MACRO_PROT_ARGS)
 
 	nl = MDOC_NEWLINE & mdoc->flags;
 
+	/* Skip items outside lists. */
+
+	if (tok == MDOC_It) {
+		for (n = mdoc->last; n; n = n->parent)
+			if (n->tok == MDOC_Bl)
+				break;
+		if (n == NULL) {
+			mandoc_vmsg(MANDOCERR_IT_STRAY, mdoc->parse,
+			    line, ppos, "It %s", buf + *pos);
+			if ( ! mdoc_elem_alloc(mdoc, line, ppos,
+			    MDOC_br, NULL))
+				return(0);
+			return(rew_elem(mdoc, MDOC_br));
+		}
+	}
+
 	/* Close out prior implicit scope. */
 
 	if ( ! (MDOC_EXPLICIT & mdoc_macros[tok].flags)) {