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diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 63337b67968d74ffea4ec786800ff7d464958fc5..ce0a001aa440690fc03a3775f9f90f24a6a0f9ef 100644 (file)
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.83 2010/01/30 08:55:39 kristaps Exp $
+.\"    $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.84 2010/02/17 19:22:50 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" 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 30 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 17 2010 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of arguments.
 .It Sx \&Ux  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n
 .It Sx \&Va  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n
 .It Sx \&Vt  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
-.It Sx \&Xr  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0, <3
+.It Sx \&Xr  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
 .It Sx \&br  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    0
 .It Sx \&sp  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    1
 .El
@@ -1925,6 +1925,37 @@ See also
 and
 .Sx \&Va .
 .
+.Ss \&Xc
+.Ss \&Xo
+.Ss \&Xr
+Link to another manual
+.Pq Qq cross-reference .
+Its calling syntax is
+.Pp
+.D1 \. Ns Sx \&Xr Cm name section
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm name
+and
+.Cm section
+are the name and section of the linked manual.  If
+.Cm section
+is followed by non-punctuation, an
+.Sx \&Ns
+is inserted into the token stream.  This behaviour is for compatibility
+with
+.Xr groff 1 .
+.Pp
+Examples:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Xr mandoc 1
+\&.Xr mandoc 1 ;
+\&.Xr mandoc 1 s behaviour
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss \&br
+.Ss \&sp
+.
 .
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at