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@@ -272,6 +272,10 @@ in the alphabetical reference below.
.It Sx RB Ta alternate between roman and boldface fonts
.It Sx RI Ta alternate between roman and italic fonts
.El
+.Ss Semantic markup
+.Bl -column "PP, LP, P" description
+.It Sx OP Ta optional arguments
+.El
.Sh MACRO REFERENCE
This section is a canonical reference to all macros, arranged
alphabetically.
@@ -437,6 +441,19 @@ See also
.Sx \&PP ,
and
.Sx \&TP .
+.Ss \&OP
+Optional command-line argument.
+This has the following syntax:
+.Bd -filled -offset indent
+.Pf \. Sx \&OP
+.Cm key Op Cm value
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm key
+is usually a command-line flag and
+.Cm value
+its argument.
.Ss \&P
Synonym for
.Sx \&LP .
@@ -691,6 +708,7 @@ The syntax is as follows:
.It Sx \&I Ta n Ta next-line Ta \&
.It Sx \&IB Ta n Ta current Ta \&
.It Sx \&IR Ta n Ta current Ta \&
+.It Sx \&OP Ta 0, 1 Ta current Ta compat
.It Sx \&R Ta n Ta next-line Ta \&
.It Sx \&RB Ta n Ta current Ta \&
.It Sx \&RI Ta n Ta current Ta \&
@@ -854,6 +872,12 @@ number when no
is given, like in
.Xr mdoc 7 .
.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Sx OP
+macro is part of the extended
+.Nm
+macro set, and may not be portable to non-GNU troff implementations.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 1 ,
.Xr mandoc 1 ,
@@ -869,6 +893,9 @@ language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting
system in
.At v7 .
It was later rewritten by James Clark as a macro package for groff.
+Eric S. Raymond wrote the extended
+.Nm
+macros for groff in 2007.
The stand-alone implementation that is part of the
.Xr mandoc 1
utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in