-.Sh USER-DEFINED STRINGS
-Strings defined by the
-.Xr roff 7
-.Sx \&ds
-instruction are saved using the
-.Fn roff_setstr
-function and retrieved using the
-.Fn roff_getstr
-and
-.Fn roff_getstrn
-functions.
-.Pp
-These functions take the name of the string to be accessed
-as their first argument.
-While
-.Fn roff_getstr
-requires the name to be null-terminated,
-.Fn roff_getstrn
-accepts non-terminated strings, but requires the length of the name
-to be specified.
-.Pp
-The second argument to
-.Fn roff_setstr
-is the new value of the string.
-It will be copied to internal storage, so both pointers to constant
-strings and pointers to volatile storage are acceptable.
-.Pp
-All of these functions return a pointer to the new value of the string
-in internal storage, which should be considered read-only, so use
-.Xr strdup 3
-on it as appropriate.
-The read functions return NULL when a string of the specified name
-is not available or empty, and
-.Fn roff_setstr
-returns NULL when memory allocation fails.
-In the latter case, the string will remain unset.
-.Pp
-The function
-.Fn roff_freestr
-clears all user-defined strings.
-It always succeeds.
-Both
-.Fn roff_reset
-and
-.Fn roff_free
-call it.