From 1229fdd9d84784744b71813ed8b0845b20d4f2ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:35:30 +0000
Subject: Documented `Fl' in mdoc.7. Backed out stipulation that `Fl ""' is
 ignored: this is not the case in !OpenBSD groffs.

---
 mdoc.7 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mdoc.7')

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 89481df1..7ee2b70e 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1596,6 +1596,22 @@ is provided.
 .Ss \&Fc
 .Ss \&Fd
 .Ss \&Fl
+Command-line flag.  Used when listing arguments to command-line
+utilities.  Prints a fixed-width hyphen
+.Sq \-
+before each delimited argument.  If no arguments are provided, a hyphen
+is still printed.
+.Pp
+Examples:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Fl a b c
+\&.Fl
+\&.Op Fl o Ns Ar file
+.Ed
+.Pp
+See also
+.Sx \&Cm .
+.
 .Ss \&Fn
 .Ss \&Fo
 .Ss \&Fr
@@ -1830,6 +1846,12 @@ file re-write
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+Historic 
+.Xr groff 1
+does not print a dash for empty 
+.Sx \&Fl
+arguments.  This behaviour has been discontinued.
+.It
 .Xr groff 1
 behaves strangely (even between versions) when specifying
 .Sq \ef
-- 
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