In -Tman mode, support automatic word keeps in the SYNOPSIS

[mandoc.git] / roff.7

diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index 76169d876dbf1dce51bd00f0ccd5e45a3300619d..2221251431280d49b2817972459d6befb29cb028 100644 (file)
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: roff.7,v 1.35 2011/11/21 22:19:23 kristaps Exp $
+.\"    $Id: roff.7,v 1.39 2012/06/12 20:21:04 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 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: November 21 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 12 2012 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ depends on the respective processing context.
 .Nm
 documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space
 character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character.
-The back-space character
+The backslash character
 .Sq \e
 indicates the start of an escape sequence for
 .Sx Comments ,
@@ -417,6 +417,18 @@ The syntax of this request is the same as that of
 It is currently ignored by
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 as are its children.
+.Ss \&cc
+Changes the control character.
+Its syntax is as follows:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+.Pf . Cm \&cc Op Ar c
+.Ed
+.Pp
+If
+.Ar c
+is not specified, the control character is reset to
+.Sq \&. .
+Trailing characters are ignored.
 .Ss \&de
 Define a
 .Nm
@@ -844,6 +856,22 @@ only accepts relative paths not containing the strings
 .Qq ../
 and
 .Qq /.. .
+.Pp
+This request requires
+.Xr man 1
+to change to the right directory before calling
+.Xr mandoc 1 ,
+per convention to the root of the manual tree.
+Typical usage looks like:
+.Pp
+.Dl \&.so man3/Xcursor.3
+.Pp
+As the whole concept is rather fragile, the use of
+.Sx \&so
+is discouraged.
+Use
+.Xr ln 1
+instead.
 .Ss \&ta
 Set tab stops.
 This line-scoped request can take an arbitrary number of arguments.
@@ -952,8 +980,8 @@ Saltzer in 1964.
 Doug McIlroy rewrote it in BCPL in 1969, renaming it
 .Nm .
 Dennis M. Ritchie rewrote McIlroy's
-.Nm 
-in PDP-11 assmebly for
+.Nm
+in PDP-11 assembly for
 .At v1 ,
 Joseph F. Ossanna improved roff and renamed it nroff
 for