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| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -729,9 +729,9 @@ macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still takes effect. .Pq mdoc The .Ic \&Dt -macro can only occur before the first non-prologue macro -because traditional formatters write the page header -before parsing the document body. +macro appears after the first non-prologue macro. +Traditional formatters cannot handle this because +they write the page header before parsing the document body. Even though this technical restriction does not apply to .Nm , traditional semantics is preserved. @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ manual for replacements. .Pq mdoc The name of a macro that is not callable appears on a macro line. It is printed verbatim. -If the intention is to call it, move it to its own line; +If the intention is to call it, move it to its own input line; otherwise, escape it by prepending .Sq \e& . .It Sy "skipping paragraph macro" @@ -1080,21 +1080,18 @@ list, an .Ic \&It block is empty. An empty list item is shown. -.It Sy "missing font type" +.It Sy "missing font type, using \efR" .Pq mdoc A .Ic \&Bf macro has no argument. -It switches to the default font, -.Cm \efR . -.It Sy "unknown font type" +It switches to the default font. +.It Sy "unknown font type, using \efR" .Pq mdoc The .Ic \&Bf argument is invalid. -The default font -.Cm \efR -is used instead. +The default font is used instead. .It Sy "nothing follows prefix" .Pq mdoc A @@ -1503,7 +1500,7 @@ macros as well as tables require explicit closing by dedicated macros. A block that doesn't support bad nesting ends before all of its children are properly closed. The open child nodes are closed implicitly. -.It Sy "scope open on exit" +.It Sy "appending missing end of block" .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff At the end of the document, an explicit .Xr mdoc 7 |