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-rw-r--r--chars.c3
-rw-r--r--mandoc_char.719
-rw-r--r--roff_escape.c4
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/chars.c b/chars.c
index 77000c5c..0214428d 100644
--- a/chars.c
+++ b/chars.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id$ */
+/* $Id$ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
* Copyright (c) 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ static struct ln lines[] = {
{ "en", "-", 0x2013 },
{ "hy", "-", 0x2010 },
{ "e", "\\", 0x005c },
- { ".", ".", 0x002e },
{ "r!", "!", 0x00a1 },
{ "r?", "?", 0x00bf },
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7
index de1ef177..5aed14fb 100644
--- a/mandoc_char.7
+++ b/mandoc_char.7
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id$
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2011,2013,2015,2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017-2020, 2022
+.\" 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
@@ -220,13 +221,18 @@ where it introduces a
request or a macro, and when appearing alone as a macro argument in
.Xr mdoc 7 .
In such situations, prepend a zero-width space
-.Pq Sq \e&.
+.Pq Sq \e&.\&
to make it behave like normal text.
.Pp
-Do not use the
+Do not use the character pair
.Sq \e.
-escape sequence.
-It does not prevent special handling of the period.
+to escape a period because
+.Sq \e.
+is not a character escape sequence, does not prevent special handling
+of the period under normal circumstances, and is only intended to
+be used in the very special situation of defining a user-defined
+macro that, when called, defines another user-defined macro, which
+no manual page is ever supposed to do.
.Ss Backslashes
To include a literal backslash
.Pq Sq \e
@@ -326,7 +332,6 @@ Punctuation:
.It \e(en Ta \(en Ta en-dash
.It \e(hy Ta \(hy Ta hyphen
.It \ee Ta \e Ta back-slash
-.It \e. Ta \. Ta period
.It \e(r! Ta \(r! Ta upside-down exclamation
.It \e(r? Ta \(r? Ta upside-down question
.El
diff --git a/roff_escape.c b/roff_escape.c
index 39011cde..9d02054d 100644
--- a/roff_escape.c
+++ b/roff_escape.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ roff_escape(const char *buf, const int ln, const int aesc,
case '\0':
iendarg = --iend;
/* FALLTHROUGH */
+ case '.':
case '\\':
default:
iarg--;
@@ -136,7 +137,6 @@ roff_escape(const char *buf, const int ln, const int aesc,
case ' ':
case '\'':
case '-':
- case '.':
case '0':
case ':':
case '_':
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ out:
err = MANDOCERR_ESC_UNSUPP;
break;
case ESCAPE_UNDEF:
- if (buf[inam] == '\\')
+ if (buf[inam] == '\\' || buf[inam] == '.')
return rval;
err = MANDOCERR_ESC_UNDEF;
break;