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-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 1 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 20 2012 $
.Dt MDOC 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
which resolves to
.Sy 6n .
.It
-A width using the syntax described in
-.Sx Scaling Widths .
+A scaling width as described in
+.Xr roff 7 .
.It
An arbitrary string, which indents by the length of this string.
.El
.Fl width
and
.Fl offset
-arguments accept
-.Sx Scaling Widths
+arguments accept scaling widths as described in
+.Xr roff 7
or use the length of the given string.
The
.Fl offset
The
.Fl width
argument has no effect; instead, each argument specifies the width
-of one column, using either the
-.Sx Scaling Widths
-syntax or the string length of the argument.
+of one column, using either the scaling width syntax described in
+.Xr roff 7
+or the string length of the argument.
If the first line of the body of a
.Fl column
list is not an
.St -isoC-tcor2
.It \-isoC-99
.St -isoC-99
+.It \-isoC-2011
+.St -isoC-2011
.It \-iso9945-1-90
.St -iso9945-1-90
.It \-iso9945-1-96
.Pp
The
.Ar height
-argument must be formatted as described in
-.Sx Scaling Widths .
+argument is a scaling width as described in
+.Xr roff 7 .
If unspecified,
.Sx \&sp
asserts a single vertical space.