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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-03-08 04:43:54 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-03-08 04:43:54 +0000 |
commit | bdbb7d0355bd86cdd2bcaf08293edf32a911ebe5 (patch) | |
tree | 783b4adb0fd04a6698a987dd2282e5f9805dc654 /roff.7 | |
parent | d3bc35e0fd4d9bed56d9663c0b330ceac96e4a9f (diff) | |
download | mandoc-bdbb7d0355bd86cdd2bcaf08293edf32a911ebe5.tar.gz |
Improve .if/.ie condition handling.
* Support string comparisons.
* Support negation not only for numerical, but for all conditions.
* Switch the `o' condition from false to true.
* Handle the `c', `d', and `r' conditions as false for now.
* Use int for boolean data instead of rolling our own "enum roffrule";
needed such that we can use the standard ! and == operators.
Havard Eidnes reported via the NetBSD bug tracking system that some
Tcl*(3) manuals need this, and Thomas Klausner <wiz at NetBSD>
forwarded the report to me. This doesn't make the crazy Tcl*(3)
macrology maze happy yet, but brings us a bit closer.
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
-rw-r--r-- | roff.7 | 109 |
1 files changed, 70 insertions, 39 deletions
@@ -677,10 +677,73 @@ Its syntax is equivalent to .Sx \&if . .Ss \&if Begins a conditional. -Right now, the conditional evaluates to true -if and only if it starts with the letter -.Sy n , -indicating processing in nroff style as opposed to troff style. +This request has the following syntax: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.if COND BODY +.Ed +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.if COND \e{BODY +BODY...\e} +.Ed +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.if COND \e{\e +BODY... +\&.\e} +.Ed +.Pp +COND is a conditional statement. +Currently, +.Xr mandoc 1 +supports the following subset of roff conditionals: +.Bl -bullet +.It +If +.Sq \&! +is prefixed to COND, the condition is logically inverted. +.It +If the first character of COND is +.Sq n +.Pq nroff mode +or +.Sq o +.Pq odd page , +COND evaluates to true. +.It +If the first character of COND is +.Sq c +.Pq character available , +.Sq d +.Pq string defined , +.Sq e +.Pq even page , +.Sq r +.Pq register accessed , +or +.Sq t +.Pq troff mode , +COND evaluates to false. +.It +If COND starts with a digit, optionally prefixed by a minus sign, +it is evaluated as a numerical expression of the form +.Ar number operator number , +where +.Ar operator +is one of +.Sq < , +.Sq <= , +.Sq = , +.Sq >= , +or +.Sq > . +.It +Otherwise, the first character of COND is regarded as a delimiter +and COND evaluates to true if the string extending from its first +to its second occurrence is equal to the string extending from its +second to its third occurrence. +.It +If COND cannot be parsed, it evaluates to false. +.El +.Pp If a conditional is false, its children are not processed, but are syntactically interpreted to preserve the integrity of the input document. @@ -698,44 +761,12 @@ will continue to syntactically interpret to the block close of the final conditional. Sub-conditionals, in this case, obviously inherit the truth value of the parent. -This request has the following syntax: -.Bd -literal -offset indent -\&.if COND \e{\e -BODY... -\&.\e} -.Ed -.Bd -literal -offset indent -\&.if COND \e{ BODY -BODY... \e} -.Ed -.Bd -literal -offset indent -\&.if COND \e{ BODY -BODY... -\&.\e} -.Ed -.Bd -literal -offset indent -\&.if COND \e -BODY -.Ed -.Pp -COND is a conditional statement. -roff allows for complicated conditionals; mandoc is much simpler. -At this time, mandoc supports only -.Sq n , -evaluating to true; -and -.Sq t , -.Sq e , -and -.Sq o , -evaluating to false. -All other invocations are read up to the next end of line or space and -evaluate as false. .Pp If the BODY section is begun by an escaped brace .Sq \e{ , -scope continues until a closing-brace escape sequence -.Sq \.\e} . +scope continues until the end of the input line containing the +matching closing-brace escape sequence +.Sq \e} . If the BODY is not enclosed in braces, scope continues until the end of the line. If the COND is followed by a BODY on the same line, whether after a |