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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" $Id$ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> -.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> +.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ and manual formatting languages are based on it, many real-world manuals use small numbers of .Nm -requests intermixed with their +requests and escape sequences intermixed with their .Xr mdoc 7 or .Xr man 7 @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ To properly format such manuals, the .Xr mandoc 1 utility supports a tiny subset of .Nm -requests. -Only these requests supported by +requests and escapes. +Only these requests and escapes supported by .Xr mandoc 1 are documented in the present manual, together with the basic language syntax shared by @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character. The backslash character .Sq \e -indicates the start of an escape sequence for +indicates the start of an escape sequence, used for example for .Sx Comments , .Sx Special Characters , .Sx Predefined Strings , @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ and user-defined strings defined using the .Sx ds request. +For a listing of escape sequences, consult the +.Sx ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE +below. .Ss Comments Text following an escaped double-quote .Sq \e\(dq , @@ -824,7 +827,7 @@ Its syntax is as follows: The .Ar value may, at the moment, only be an integer. -If it is prefixed by a sign, the register will be +If it is prefixed by a sign, the register will be incremented or decremented instead of assigned to. .Pp The following register @@ -926,6 +929,249 @@ Begin a table, which formats input in aligned rows and columns. See .Xr tbl 7 for a description of the tbl language. +.Sh ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE +The +.Xr mandoc 1 +.Nm +parser recognises the following escape sequences. +Note that the +.Nm +language defines more escape sequences not implemented in +.Xr mandoc 1 . +In +.Xr mdoc 7 +and +.Xr man 7 +documents, using escape sequences is discouraged except for those +described in the +.Sx LANGUAGE SYNTAX +section above. +.Pp +A backslash followed by any character not listed here +simply prints that character itself. +.Ss \e<newline> +A backslash at the end of an input line can be used to continue the +logical input line on the next physical input line, joining the text +on both lines together as if it were on a single input line. +.Ss \e<space> +The escape sequence backslash-space +.Pq Sq \e\ \& +is an unpaddable space-sized non-breaking space character; see +.Sx Whitespace . +.Ss \e\(dq +The rest of the input line is treated as +.Sx Comments . +.Ss \e% +Hyphenation allowed at this point of the word; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \e& +Non-printing zero-width character; see +.Sx Whitespace . +.Ss \e\(aq +Acute accent special character; use +.Sq \e(aa +instead. +.Ss \e( Ns Ar cc +.Sx Special Characters +with two-letter names, see +.Xr mandoc_char 7 . +.Ss \e*[ Ns Ar name ] +Interpolate the string with the +.Ar name ; +see +.Sx Predefined Strings +and +.Sx ds . +For short names, there are variants +.No \e* Ns Ar c +and +.No \e*( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \e- +Special character +.Dq mathematical minus sign . +.Ss \e[ Ns Ar name ] +.Sx Special Characters +with names of arbitrary length, see +.Xr mandoc_char 7 . +.Ss \e^ +One-twelfth em half-narrow space character, effectively zero-width in +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \e` +Grave accent special character; use +.Sq \e(ga +instead. +.Ss \e{ +Begin conditional input; see +.Sx if . +.Ss \e\(ba +One-sixth em narrow space character, effectively zero-width in +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \e} +End conditional input; see +.Sx if . +.Ss \e~ +Paddable non-breaking space character. +.Ss \e0 +Digit width space character. +.Ss \eA\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Anchor definition; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eB\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Test whether +.Ar string +is a numerical expession; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eb\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Bracket building function; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eC\(aq Ns Ar name Ns \(aq +.Sx Special Characters +with names of arbitrary length. +.Ss \ec +Interrupt text processing to insert requests or macros; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eD\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Draw graphics function; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \ed +Move down by half a line; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \ee +Backslash special character. +.Ss \eF[ Ns Ar name ] +Switch font family (groff extension); ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \eF Ns Ar c +and +.No \eF( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \ef[ Ns Ar name ] +Switch to the font +.Ar name , +see +.Sx Text Decoration . +For short names, there are variants +.No \ef Ns Ar c +and +.No \ef( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \eg[ Ns Ar name ] +Interpolate the format of a number register; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \eg Ns Ar c +and +.No \eg( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \eH\(aq Ns Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Set the height of the current font; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eh\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Horizontal motion; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \ek[ Ns Ar name ] +Mark horizontal input place in register; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \ek Ns Ar c +and +.No \ek( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \eL\(aq Ns Ar number Ns Oo Ar c Oc Ns \(aq +Vertical line drawing function; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \el\(aq Ns Ar number Ns Oo Ar c Oc Ns \(aq +Horizontal line drawing function; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eM[ Ns Ar name ] +Set fill (background) color (groff extension); ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \eM Ns Ar c +and +.No \eM( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \em[ Ns Ar name ] +Set glyph drawing color (groff extension); ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \em Ns Ar c +and +.No \em( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Character +.Ar number +on the current font. +.Ss \en[ Ns Ar name ] +Interpolate the number register +.Ar name . +For short names, there are variants +.No \en Ns Ar c +and +.No \en( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \eo\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Overstrike +.Ar string ; +ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eR\(aq Ns Ar name Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Set number register; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eS\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Slant output; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \es\(aq Ns Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Change point size; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +Alternative forms +.No \es Ns Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar n , +.No \es Ns Oo +|- Oc Ns \(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq , +.No \es Ns [ Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar number ] , +and +.No \es Ns Oo +|- Oc Ns [ Ar number Ns ] +are also parsed and ignored. +.Ss \et +Horizontal tab; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eu +Move up by half a line; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eV[ Ns Ar name ] +Interpolate an environment variable; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \eV Ns Ar c +and +.No \eV( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \ev\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Vertical motion; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \ew\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Interpolate the width of the +.Ar string ; +ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eX\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Output +.Ar string +as device control function; ignored in nroff mode and by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \ex\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +Extra line space function; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \eY[ Ns Ar name ] +Output a string as a device control function; ignored in nroff mode and by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +For short names, there are variants +.No \eY Ns Ar c +and +.No \eY( Ns Ar cc . +.Ss \eZ\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq +Print +.Ar string +with zero width and height; ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 . +.Ss \ez +Output the next character without advancing the cursor position; +approximated in +.Xr mandoc 1 +by simply skipping the next character. .Sh COMPATIBILITY This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other .Nm |