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Diffstat (limited to 'usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_roff.5')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_roff.5 b/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_roff.5 index 0a9aa7cbd8..17e9d2e09c 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_roff.5 +++ b/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_roff.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.111 2019/01/01 03:45:29 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.116 2021/09/18 12:23:06 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010-2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 18 2021 $ .Dt ROFF 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -315,12 +315,18 @@ delimiters The proper spacing is also intelligently preserved if a sentence ends at the boundary of a macro line. .Pp +If an input line happens to end with a period, exclamation or question +mark that isn't the end of a sentence, append a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& . +.Pp Examples: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact Do not end sentences mid-line like this. Instead, end a sentence like this. A macro would end like this: \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&. +An abbreviation at the end of an input line needs escaping, e.g.\e& +like this. .Ed .Sh REQUEST SYNTAX A request or macro line consists of: @@ -503,10 +509,9 @@ This is a Heirloom extension and currently unsupported. .It Ic \&br Break the output line. .It Ic \&break -Break out of a +Break out of the innermost .Ic \&while loop. -Currently unsupported. .It Ic \&breakchar Ar char ... Optional line break characters. This is a Heirloom extension and currently ignored. @@ -619,7 +624,7 @@ Its syntax can be either .Pp or .Bd -literal -offset indent -.Pf . Ic \&de Ar macroname Ar endmacro +.Pf . Ic \&de Ar macroname endmacro .Ar definition .Pf . Ar endmacro .Ed @@ -1306,7 +1311,7 @@ Change the output line length. If the .Ar width argument is omitted, the line length is reset to its previous value. -The default setting for terminal output is 58n. +The default setting for terminal output is 78n. If a sign is given, the line length is added to or subtracted from; otherwise, it is set to the provided value. Using this request in new manuals is discouraged for several reasons, @@ -1815,7 +1820,7 @@ Each number may be followed by one optional scaling unit described below .Sx Scaling Widths . The following equations hold: .Bd -literal -offset indent -1i = 6v = 6P = 10m = 10n = 52p = 1000M = 240u = 240 +1i = 6v = 6P = 10m = 10n = 72p = 1000M = 240u = 240 254c = 100i = 24000u = 24000 1f = 65536u = 65536 .Ed @@ -2326,7 +2331,7 @@ for .At v2 , then ported nroff to C as troff, which Brian W. Kernighan released with .At v7 . -In 1989, James Clarke re-implemented troff in C++, naming it groff. +In 1989, James Clark re-implemented troff in C++, naming it groff. .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit This |