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Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc.1 | 115 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 107 deletions
@@ -321,9 +321,6 @@ Emboldened characters are rendered as The special characters documented in .Xr mandoc_char 7 are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent. -If no equivalent is found, -.Sq \&? -is used instead. .Pp Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines exceed this limit. @@ -344,7 +341,7 @@ for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks. .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width The output width is set to .Ar width , -which will normalise to \(>=60. +which will normalise to \(>=58. .El .Ss HTML Output Output produced by @@ -1670,88 +1667,9 @@ macro or of an undefined macro. The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled as if they were a text line. .El -.Sh COMPATIBILITY -This section summarises -.Nm -compatibility with GNU troff. -Each input and output format is separately noted. -.Ss ASCII Compatibility -.Bl -bullet -compact -.It -Unrenderable unicode codepoints specified with -.Sq \e[uNNNN] -escapes are printed as -.Sq \&? -in mandoc. -In GNU troff, these raise an error. -.It -The -.Sq \&Bd \-literal -and -.Sq \&Bd \-unfilled -macros of -.Xr mdoc 7 -in -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii -are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged. -.It -In historic GNU troff, the -.Sq \&Pa -.Xr mdoc 7 -macro does not underline when scoped under an -.Sq \&It -in the FILES section. -This behaves correctly in -.Nm . -.It -A list or display following the -.Sq \&Ss -.Xr mdoc 7 -macro in -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii -does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with -.Sq \&Sh . -.It -The -.Sq \&na -.Xr man 7 -macro in -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii -has no effect. -.It -Words aren't hyphenated. -.El -.Ss HTML Compatibility -.Bl -bullet -compact -.It -The -.Sq \efP -escape will revert the font to the previous -.Sq \ef -escape, not to the last rendered decoration, which is now dictated by -CSS instead of hard-coded. -It also will not span past the current scope, -for the same reason. -Note that in -.Sx ASCII Output -mode, this will work fine. -.It -The -.Xr mdoc 7 -.Sq \&Bl \-hang -and -.Sq \&Bl \-tag -list types render similarly (no break following overreached left-hand -side) due to the expressive constraints of HTML. -.It -The -.Xr man 7 -.Sq IP -and -.Sq TP -lists render similarly. -.El .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr apropos 1 , +.Xr man 1 , .Xr eqn 7 , .Xr man 7 , .Xr mandoc_char 7 , @@ -1762,32 +1680,15 @@ lists render similarly. The .Nm utility was written by -.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . -.Sh CAVEATS +.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv +and is maintained by +.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . +.Sh BUGS In -.Fl T Ns Cm html -and -.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml , +.Fl T Ns Cm html , the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by .Dv BUFSIZ , which is usually 1024 bytes. Be aware of this when setting long link formats such as .Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link . -.Pp -Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of -.Fl m Ns Cm an , -such as -.Sq br -within an empty -.Sq B , -will confuse -.Fl T Ns Cm html -and -.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml -and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope. -.Pp -The -.Sq \(aq -control character is an alias for the standard macro control character -and does not emit a line-break as stipulated in GNU troff. |