From ca8921e182baff75b879a30d09ea47aa2ddbf8a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristaps Dzonsons Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:54:29 +0000 Subject: Sort COMPATIBILITY in mdoc(7) (from schwarze@). Update escape COMPATIBILITY in mdoc(7) and man(7) (ok schwarze@). --- man.7 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'man.7') diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7 index 981b70cd..da2c30f5 100644 --- a/man.7 +++ b/man.7 @@ -917,24 +917,39 @@ language. .Pp .Bl -dash -compact .It -The \es (font size), \em (font colour), and \eM (font filling colour) -font decoration escapes are all discarded in mandoc. -.It In quoted literals, GNU troff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a standalone double-quote in formatted output. It is not known whether this behaviour is exhibited by other formatters. .It +troff suppresses a newline before +.Sq \(aq +macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard +.Sq \&. +control character. +.It +The +.Sq \eh +.Pq horizontal position , +.Sq \ev +.Pq vertical position , +.Sq \em +.Pq text colour , +.Sq \eM +.Pq text filling colour , +and +.Sq \es +.Pq text size +.Sx Text Decoration +escapes are all discarded in mandoc. +.It +The +.Sq \ef +scaling unit is accepted by mandoc, but rendered as the default unit. +.It The .Sx \&sp macro does not accept negative values in mandoc. In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour. -.It -The -.Sq \(aq -macro control character, in GNU troff (and prior troffs) suppresses a -newline before macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard -.Sq \&. -control character. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mandoc 1 , -- cgit