Switch to autogenerated dependency rules; they are less error-prone.

[mandoc.git] / roff.7

diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index 40f520bc86703a0bbaab72229bd447304b709705..bc2f24e45b3fb115321e60bda8fd60c9fda7badf 100644 (file)
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: roff.7,v 1.54 2014/04/08 01:37:27 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $Id: roff.7,v 1.55 2014/07/07 11:35:06 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 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.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 8 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 7 2014 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -409,24 +409,21 @@ and the number of arguments is not checked.
 Append to a macro definition.
 The syntax of this request is the same as that of
 .Sx \&de .
-It is currently ignored by
-.Xr mandoc 1 ,
-as are its children.
 .Ss \&ami
 Append to a macro definition, specifying the macro name indirectly.
 The syntax of this request is the same as that of
 .Sx \&dei .
-It is currently ignored by
-.Xr mandoc 1 ,
-as are its children.
 .Ss \&am1
 Append to a macro definition, switching roff compatibility mode off
 during macro execution.
 The syntax of this request is the same as that of
 .Sx \&de1 .
-It is currently ignored by
-.Xr mandoc 1 ,
-as are its children.
+Since
+.Xr mandoc 1
+does not implement
+.Nm
+compatibility mode at all, it handles this request as an alias for
+.Sx \&am .
 .Ss \&as
 Append to a user-defined string.
 The syntax of this request is the same as that of
@@ -554,9 +551,13 @@ Define a
 macro, specifying the macro name indirectly.
 The syntax of this request is the same as that of
 .Sx \&de .
-It is currently ignored by
-.Xr mandoc 1 ,
-as are its children.
+The request
+.Pp
+.D1 Pf . Cm \&dei Ar name Op Ar end
+.Pp
+has the same effect as:
+.Pp
+.D1 Pf . Cm \&de No \e* Ns Bo Ar name Bc Op \e* Ns Bq Ar end
 .Ss \&de1
 Define a
 .Nm