-.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.4 2010/05/17 02:01:05 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.14 2010/07/27 13:16:00 kristaps Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 17 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 27 2010 $
.Dt ROFF 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Sx \&ig ,
except that a leading argument must be specified.
It is ignored, as are its children.
+.Ss \&ds
+Define a reserved word.
+Its syntax is as follows:
+.Pp
+.D1 Pf \. Sx \&ds No Cm key val
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm key
+and
+.Cm val
+strings are space-separated.
+The
+.Cm key
+values may be invoked in subsequent text by using \e*(NN for two-letter
+pairs, \e*N for one-letter, and \e*[NNN] for arbitrary-length values.
+.Pp
+If
+.Cm val
+is begun with a double-quote mark, the mark is passed over.
+.Cm val
+consists of
+.Em all
+text following this point, including whitespace and trailing
+double-quotes.
.Ss \&de1
The syntax of this macro is the same as that of
.Sx \&ig ,
except that a leading argument must be specified.
It is ignored, as are its children.
+.Ss \&el
+The
+.Qq else
+half of an if/else conditional.
+Pops a result off the stack of conditional evaluations pushed by
+.Sx \&ie
+and uses it as its conditional.
+If no stack entries are present (e.g., due to no prior
+.Sx \&ie
+calls)
+then false is assumed.
+The syntax of this macro is similar to
+.Sx \&if
+except that the conditional is missing.
+.Ss \&ie
+The
+.Qq if
+half of an if/else conditional.
+The result of the conditional is pushed into a stack used by subsequent
+invocations of
+.Sx \&el ,
+which may be separated by any intervening input (or not exist at all).
+Its syntax is equivalent to
+.Sx \&if .
.Ss \&if
-Begins a conditional that always evaluates to false.
+Begins a conditional.
+Right now, the conditional evaluates to true
+if and only if it starts with the letter
+.Sy n ,
+indicating processing in
+.Xr nroff 1
+style as opposed to
+.Xr troff 1
+style.
If a conditional is false, its children are not processed, but are
syntactically interpreted to preserve the integrity of the input
document.
BODY
.Ed
.Pp
-COND is a conditional (for the time being, this always evaluates to
-false).
+COND is a conditional statement.
+roff allows for complicated conditionals; mandoc is much simpler.
+At this time, mandoc supports only
+.Sq n ,
+evaluating to true;
+and
+.Sq t ,
+.Sq e ,
+and
+.Sq o ,
+evaluating to false.
+All other invocations are read up to the next end of line or space and
+evaluate as false.
.Pp
If the BODY section is begun by an escaped brace
.Sq \e{ ,
Furthermore, if an explicit closing sequence
.Sq \e}
is specified in a free-form line, the entire line is accepted within the
-scope of the prior macro, not only the text preceding the close.
+scope of the prior macro, not only the text preceding the close, with the
+.Sq \e}
+collapsing into a zero-width space.
.Ss \&ig
Ignore input.
Accepts the following syntax:
.Sx \&if
will first signify the end of comment, then be invoked as a macro.
This behaviour really shouldn't be counted upon.
+.Ss \&rm
+Remove a request, macro or string.
+This macro is intended to have one argument,
+the name of the request, macro or string to be undefined.
+Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
+and the number of arguments is not checked.
+.Ss \&nr
+Define a register.
+A register is an arbitrary string value that defines some sort of state,
+which influences parsing and/or formatting.
+Its syntax is as follows:
+.Pp
+.D1 Pf \. Sx \&nr Cm name value
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm value
+may, at the moment, only be an integer.
+The
+.Cm name
+is defined up to the next whitespace.
+The following register
+.Cm name
+requests are recognised:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm nS
+If set to a positive integer value, certain
+.Xr mdoc 7
+macros will behave as if they were defined in the
+.Em SYNOPSIS
+section.
+Otherwise, this behaviour is unset (even if called within the
+.Em SYNOPSIS
+section itself).
+Note that invoking a new
+.Xr mdoc 7
+section will unset this value.
+.El
+.Ss \&tr
+Output character translation.
+This macro is intended to have one argument,
+consisting of an even number of characters.
+Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
+and the number of arguments is not checked.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other other
troff implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff
.Pp
.Bl -dash -compact
.It
+The
+.Cm nS
+request to
+.Sx \&nr
+is only compatible with OpenBSD's groff.
+.It
Historic groff did not accept white-space buffering the custom END tag
for the
.Sx \&ig
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