Handle nested, recursive mathematical subexpressions. This is

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+.\"    $Id: man.7,v 1.85 2010/08/24 13:39:37 kristaps Exp $
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 6 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 24 2010 $
 .Dt MAN 7
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 .Sh NAME
@@ -917,24 +917,44 @@ 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 ,
+.Sq \ez
+.Pq zero-length character ,
+.Sq \ew
+.Pq string length ,
+.Sq \ek
+.Pq horizontal position marker ,
+and
+.Sq \es
+.Pq text size
+escape sequences 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 ,