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-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 2 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 5 2021 $
.Dt MAN 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.At
releases.
The optional arguments specify which release it is from.
+This macro is an extension that first appeared in
+.Bx 4.3 .
.It Ic B
Text is rendered in bold face.
.It Ic BI
.Ic ta
request.
.It Ic EE
-This is a non-standard GNU extension.
+This is a non-standard Version 9
+.At
+extension later adopted by GNU.
In
.Xr mandoc 1 ,
it does the same as the
.Ic fi
request (switch to fill mode).
.It Ic EX
-This is a non-standard GNU extension.
+This is a non-standard Version 9
+.At
+extension later adopted by GNU.
In
.Xr mandoc 1 ,
it does the same as the
.Ed
.It Ic OP
Optional command-line argument.
-This is a non-standard GNU extension.
+This is a non-standard DWB extension.
It has the following syntax:
.Pp
.D1 Pf . Ic OP Ar key Op Ar value
.Ar value
its argument.
.It Ic P
-A synonym for
-.Ic PP .
+This synonym for
+.Ic PP
+is an
+.At III
+extension later adopted by
+.Bx 4.3 .
.It Ic PD
Specify the vertical space to be inserted before each new paragraph.
.br
.It Ic SB
Text is rendered in small size (one point smaller than the default font)
bold face.
+This macro is an extension that probably first appeared in SunOS 4.0
+and was later adopted by GNU and by
+.Bx 4.4 .
.It Ic SH
Begin a section.
The scope of a section is only closed by another section or the end of
.Bx
releases.
The optional first argument specifies which release it is from.
+This macro is an extension that first appeared in
+.Bx 3 .
.It Ic UE
End a uniform resource identifier block started with
.Ic UR .
.It Ic BI Ta n Ta current Ta \&
.It Ic BR Ta n Ta current Ta \&
.It Ic DT Ta 0 Ta current Ta \&
-.It Ic EE Ta 0 Ta current Ta GNU
-.It Ic EX Ta 0 Ta current Ta GNU
+.It Ic EE Ta 0 Ta current Ta Version 9 At
+.It Ic EX Ta 0 Ta current Ta Version 9 At
.It Ic I Ta n Ta next-line Ta \&
.It Ic IB Ta n Ta current Ta \&
.It Ic IR Ta n Ta current Ta \&
-.It Ic OP Ta >=1 Ta current Ta GNU
+.It Ic OP Ta >=1 Ta current Ta DWB
.It Ic PD Ta 1 Ta current Ta \&
.It Ic RB Ta n Ta current Ta \&
.It Ic RI Ta n Ta current Ta \&
language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting
system in
.At v7 .
-It was later rewritten by James Clark as a macro package for groff.
-Eric S. Raymond wrote the extended
-.Nm
-macros for groff in 2007.
+.Pp
The stand-alone implementation that is part of the
.Xr mandoc 1
-utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in
+utility first appeared in
.Ox 4.6 .
.Sh AUTHORS
-This
+.An -nosplit
+.An Douglas McIlroy Aq Mt m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu
+designed and implemented the original version of these macros,
+wrote the original version of this manual page,
+and was the first to use them when he edited volume 1 of the
+.At v7
+manual pages.
+.Pp
+.An James Clark
+later rewrote the macros for groff.
+.An Eric S. Raymond Aq Mt esr@thyrsus.com
+and
+.An Werner Lemberg Aq Mt wl@gnu.org
+added the extended
+.Nm
+macros to groff in 2007.
+.Pp
+The
+.Xr mandoc 1
+program and this
.Nm
-reference was written by
+reference were written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .