Minimal cleanup of the COMPATIBILITY section:

[mandoc.git] / man.7

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index 08f43dfbb57271e93a5868549813a0be1d134c9c..4b64d7f442f43b23edb9bf14fd6e37b30bb7876e 100644 (file)
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: man.7,v 1.125 2014/03/17 06:57:48 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $Id: man.7,v 1.127 2014/06/22 16:39:45 schwarze Exp $

 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>


@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" 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: March 17 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 22 2014 $

 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME


@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ file for a utility
 \efBprogname\efR [\efB\e-options\efR] \efIfile ...\efR
 \&.SH DESCRIPTION
 The \efBfoo\efR utility processes files ...
 \efBprogname\efR [\efB\e-options\efR] \efIfile ...\efR
 \&.SH DESCRIPTION
 The \efBfoo\efR utility processes files ...

+\&.\e\(dq .Sh CONTEXT
+\&.\e\(dq For section 9 functions only.

 \&.\e\(dq .SH IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 \&.\e\(dq Not used in OpenBSD.
 \&.\e\(dq .SH RETURN VALUES
 \&.\e\(dq .SH IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 \&.\e\(dq Not used in OpenBSD.
 \&.\e\(dq .SH RETURN VALUES


@@ -171,6 +173,9 @@ This expands upon the brief, one-line description in
 .Em NAME .
 It usually contains a break-down of the options (if documenting a
 command).
 .Em NAME .
 It usually contains a break-down of the options (if documenting a
 command).

+.It Em CONTEXT
+This section lists the contexts in which functions can be called in section 9.
+The contexts are autoconf, process, or interrupt.

 .It Em IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 Implementation-specific notes should be kept here.
 This is useful when implementing standard functions that may have side
 .It Em IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 Implementation-specific notes should be kept here.
 This is useful when implementing standard functions that may have side


@@ -868,10 +873,11 @@ Note that macros like
 .Sx \&BR
 open and close a font scope for each argument.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 .Sx \&BR
 open and close a font scope for each argument.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY

-This section documents areas of questionable portability between
+This section mentions some areas of questionable portability between

 implementations of the
 .Nm
 language.
 implementations of the
 .Nm
 language.

+More incompatibilities exist.

 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It


@@ -883,47 +889,12 @@ to close out a literal context opened with
 .Sx \&nf .
 This behaviour may not be portable.
 .It
 .Sx \&nf .
 This behaviour may not be portable.
 .It

-In quoted literals, GNU troff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce
-a standalone double-quote in formatted output.
-It is not known whether this behaviour is exhibited by other formatters.
-.It

 troff suppresses a newline before
 .Sq \(aq
 macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard
 .Sq \&.
 control character.
 .It
 troff suppresses a newline before
 .Sq \(aq
 macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard
 .Sq \&.
 control character.
 .It

-The
-.Sq \eh
-.Pq horizontal position ,
-.Sq \ev
-.Pq vertical position ,
-.Sq \em
-.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 ,
-.Sq \eo
-.Pq text overstrike ,
-and
-.Sq \es
-.Pq text size
-escape sequences are all discarded in mandoc.
-.It
-The
-.Sq \ef
-scaling unit is accepted by mandoc, but rendered as the default unit.
-.It
-The
-.Sx \&sp
-macro does not accept negative values in mandoc.
-In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour.
-.It

 In page header lines, GNU troff versions up to and including 1.21
 only print
 .Ar volume
 In page header lines, GNU troff versions up to and including 1.21
 only print
 .Ar volume


@@ -939,8 +910,13 @@ is given, like in
 .El
 .Pp
 The
 .El
 .Pp
 The

-.Sx OP
-macro is part of the extended
+.Sx EE ,
+.Sx EX ,
+.Sx OP ,
+.Sx UE ,
+and
+.Sx UR
+macros are part of the GNU extended

 .Nm
 macro set, and may not be portable to non-GNU troff implementations.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Nm
 macro set, and may not be portable to non-GNU troff implementations.
 .Sh SEE ALSO