Added character-encoding checks.

[mandoc.git] / mdoc.3

diff --git a/mdoc.3 b/mdoc.3
index fbab170633bdfbace9fbda15dfbcc1ed587bf31c..059d8cf5973857240c22451f4b5545a958cff553 100644 (file)
--- a/mdoc.3
+++ b/mdoc.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mdoc.3,v 1.7 2009/02/23 09:46:59 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mdoc.3,v 1.9 2009/02/23 15:19:47 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Both functions (see
 and variables (see
 .Sx Variables )
 may use the following types:
-.Bl -ohang
+.Bl -ohang -offset "XXXX"
 .\" LIST-ITEM
 .It Vt struct mdoc
 An opaque type defined in
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ for details.
 .\" SUBSECTION
 .Ss Functions
 Function descriptions follow:
-.Bl -ohang 
+.Bl -ohang -offset "XXXX"
 .\" LIST-ITEM
 .It Fn mdoc_alloc
 Allocates a parsing structure.  The
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ return 0, the data will be incomplete.
 .\" SUBSECTION
 .Ss Variables
 The following variables are also defined:
-.Bl -ohang
+.Bl -ohang -offset "XXXX"
 .\" LIST-ITEM
 .It Va mdoc_macronames
 An array of string-ified token names.
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ field).
 The tree itself is arranged according to the following normal form,
 where capitalised non-terminals represent nodes.
 .Pp
-.Bl -tag -width "ELEMENTXX" -compact
+.Bl -tag -width "ELEMENTXX" -compact -offset "XXXX"
 .\" LIST-ITEM
 .It ROOT
 \(<- mnode+
@@ -238,31 +238,31 @@ where capitalised non-terminals represent nodes.
 .Pp
 Of note are the TEXT nodes following the HEAD, BODY and TAIL nodes of
 the BLOCK production.  These refer to punctuation marks.  Furthermore,
-although a TEXT node will generally have a non-zero-length string, it
-certain cases, such as 
-.Dq \&.Bd \-literal ,
+although a TEXT node will generally have a non-zero-length string, in
+the specific case of 
+.Sq \&.Bd \-literal ,
 an empty line will produce a zero-length string.
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
-The rule-of-thumb for mapping node types to macros follows: in-line
+The rule-of-thumb for mapping node types to macros follows. In-line
 elements, such as 
-.Dq \&.Em foo ,
+.Sq \&.Em foo ,
 are classified as ELEMENT nodes, which can only contain text.
-Multi-line elements such as
-.Dq \&.Sh
+Multi-line elements, such as
+.Sq \&.Sh ,
 are BLOCK elements, where the HEAD constitutes line contents and the
 BODY constitutes subsequent lines.  In-line elements with matching
 pairs, such as
-.Dq \&.So
+.Sq \&.So
 and
-.Dq \&.Sc ,
+.Sq \&.Sc ,
 are BLOCK elements with no HEAD tag.  The only exception to this is
-.Dq \&.Eo 
+.Sq \&.Eo 
 and
-.Dq \&.Ec ,
+.Sq \&.Ec ,
 which has a HEAD and TAIL node corresponding to the enclosure string.
-TEXT nodes, obviously, constitute text; the ROOT node is the document's
-root.
+TEXT nodes, obviously, constitute text, and the ROOT node is the
+document's root.
 .\" SECTION
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following example reads lines from stdin and parses them, operating
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Note that, if the last line of the file isn't newline-terminated, this
 will truncate the file's last character (see 
 .Xr fgetln 3 ) .
 Further, this example does not error-check nor free memory upon failure.
-.Bd -literal
+.Bd -literal -offset "XXXX"
 struct mdoc *mdoc;
 struct mdoc_node *node;
 char *buf;
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ is the default
 .Xr groff 1
 system bundled with 
 .Ox .
+.\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
 Un-implemented: the 
 .Sq \&Xc
@@ -327,12 +328,19 @@ macros aren't handled when used to span lines for the
 .Sq \&It
 macro.  Such usage is specifically discouraged in
 .Xr mdoc.samples 7 .
+.\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
 Bugs: when 
 .Sq \&It \-column
 is invoked, whitespace is not stripped around
 .Sq \&Ta
 or tab-character separators.
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Bugs: elements within columns for
+.Sq \&It \-column
+are not yet supported.
+.\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
 Incompatible: the 
 .Sq \&At
@@ -340,6 +348,7 @@ macro only accepts a single parameter.  Furthermore, several macros
 .Pf ( Sq \&Pp ,
 .Sq \&It ,
 and possibly others) accept multiple arguments with a warning.
+.\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
 Incompatible: only those macros specified by
 .Xr mdoc.samples 7