"sys/param.h is for kernel interface programs.

[mandoc.git] / mdoc.7

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index cd7280bca686edb336112b5b4bd16ec03d4196ce..d7bd066d58bd7698ee917a29ed6d321113645b9d 100644 (file)
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.150 2010/08/22 14:54:29 kristaps Exp $
+.\"    $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.155 2010/08/24 14:03:46 kristaps Exp $

 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 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.
 .\"
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"

-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 22 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 24 2010 $

 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME


@@ -2844,11 +2844,16 @@ The
 .Pq text colour ,
 .Sq \eM
 .Pq text filling colour ,
 .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
 and
 .Sq \es
 .Pq text size

-.Sx Text Decoration
-escapes are all discarded in mandoc.
+escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc.

 .It
 The
 .Sq \ef
 .It
 The
 .Sq \ef


@@ -2861,6 +2866,17 @@ This is not supported by mandoc.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7

+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+language first appeared as a troff macro package in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+It was later significantly updated by Werner Lemberg and Ruslan Ermilov
+in groff-1.17.
+The standalone implementation that is part of the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in
+.Ox 4.6 .

 .Sh AUTHORS
 The
 .Nm
 .Sh AUTHORS
 The
 .Nm