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@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ When rewinding the scope of a block macro, forces the compiler to ignore scope violations. This can seriously mangle the resulting tree. .It Fl f Ns Ar ign-escape Ignore invalid escape sequences. +.It Fl f Ns Ar ign-macro +Ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines. .El .\" PARAGRAPH .Pp @@ -117,6 +119,21 @@ options may be grouped and delimited with a comma. Using .Fl f Ns Ar ign-scope,ign-escape , for example, will try to ignore scope and character-escape errors. .\" SUB-SECTION +.Ss Input Encoding +The +.Nm +utility expects its input to be 7-bit ASCII as defined in +.Xr ascii 7 . +The only non-graphing characters accepted are spaces, +.Sq \ , +and tabs, +.Sq \et . +Tabs are only accepted in literal block-displays and as column +delimiters. +.Pp +Only Unix-style newlines (\en) are accepted; if the newline is escaped, +the line is concatenated with the next. +.\" SUB-SECTION .Ss Character Escapes This section documents the character-escapes accepted by .Xr mdocterm 1 . |