From b446ffedf453a9238f7514a3d1ca6d8ac7489f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:00:41 +0000
Subject: man.7/mdoc.7 properly reflect escape-character handling. man.7 points
 to mdoc.7 for COMPATIBILITY. Whitespace stripping noted in mdoc.7.

---
 man.7 | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'man.7')

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index e1a1cdb2..9b1a746c 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -95,7 +95,12 @@ or a single one-character sequence.
 .Pp
 Characters may alternatively be escaped by a slash-asterisk,
 .Sq \e* ,
-with the same combinations as described above.  This form is deprecated.  
+with the same combinations as described above.
+.Pp
+Terms may also be text-decorated using the
+.Sq \ef
+escape followed by a text-decoration letter: B (bold), I, (italic), or P
+and R (Roman, or reset).
 .\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Whitespace
 Unless specifically escaped, consecutive blocks of whitespace are pruned
@@ -218,6 +223,11 @@ These follow the same calling conventions as the above
 .Nm
 macros.
 .\" SECTION
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+See
+.Xr mdoc 7
+for groff compatibility notes.
+.\" SECTION
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7
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