delete the two pairs of extra blank lines from expected man(7) terminal

[mandoc.git] / mandoc.1

diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index 43f8d469b9e8ae9dc027c3e300fd5fc80d67a79e..00e7eec3ce57720c932110f73f1166eebacd6b40 100644 (file)
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.166 2020/02/15 15:28:01 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2021 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
@@ -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: July 20 2020 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 28 2021 $
 .Dt MANDOC 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -301,8 +301,8 @@ Format
 input files in
 .Xr mdoc 7
 output style.
-Specifically, this suppresses the two additional blank lines near the
-top and the bottom of each page, and it implies
+This prints the operating system name rather than the page title
+on the right side of the footer line, and it implies
 .Fl O Cm indent Ns =5 .
 One useful application is for checking that
 .Fl T Cm man
@@ -423,10 +423,17 @@ MANPAGER='lynx -force_html' man -T html -O tag=MANPAGER man
 MANPAGER='w3m -T text/html' man -T html -O tag=toc mandoc
 .Ed
 .Pp
-This argument does not work with
+Consequently, for HTML output, this argument does not work with
 .Xr more 1
 or
 .Xr less 1 .
+For example,
+.Ql MANPAGER=less man -T html -O tag=toc mandoc
+does not work because
+.Xr less 1
+does not support
+.Ic file://
+URIs.
 .It Cm toc
 If an input file contains at least two non-standard sections,
 print a table of contents near the beginning of the output.
@@ -468,10 +475,7 @@ code is not supported.
 .Pp
 If the input format of a file is
 .Xr man 7 ,
-the input is copied to the output, expanding any
-.Xr roff 7
-.Ic so
-requests.
+the input is copied to the output.
 The parser is also run, and as usual, the
 .Fl W
 level controls which
@@ -918,14 +922,6 @@ generated by CVS
 or
 .Ic NetBSD
 keyword substitution as conventionally used in these operating systems.
-.It Sy "referenced manual not found"
-.Pq mdoc
-An
-.Ic \&Xr
-macro references a manual page that is not found in the base system.
-The path to look for base system manuals is configurable at compile
-time and defaults to
-.Pa /usr/share/man : /usr/X11R6/man .
 .El
 .Ss Style suggestions
 .Bl -ohang
@@ -1012,6 +1008,35 @@ list contains two consecutive
 entries describing the same
 .Ic \&Er
 number.
+.It Sy "referenced manual not found"
+.Pq mdoc
+An
+.Ic \&Xr
+macro references a manual page that was not found.
+When running with
+.Fl W Cm base ,
+the search is restricted to the base system, by default to
+.Pa /usr/share/man : Ns Pa /usr/X11R6/man .
+This path can be configured at compile time using the
+.Dv MANPATH_BASE
+preprocessor macro.
+When running with
+.Fl W Cm style ,
+the search is done along the full search path as described in the
+.Xr man 1
+manual page, respecting the
+.Fl m
+and
+.Fl M
+command line options, the
+.Ev MANPATH
+environment variable, the
+.Xr man.conf 5
+file and falling back to the default of
+.Pa /usr/share/man : Ns Pa /usr/X11R6/man : Ns Pa /usr/local/man ,
+also configurable at compile time using the
+.Dv MANPATH_DEFAULT
+preprocessor macro.
 .It Sy "trailing delimiter"
 .Pq mdoc
 The last argument of an
@@ -1041,6 +1066,9 @@ An
 request occurs even though the document already switched to no-fill mode
 and did not switch back to fill mode yet.
 It has no effect.
+.It Sy "input text line longer than 80 bytes"
+Consider breaking the input text line
+at one of the blank characters before column 80.
 .It Sy "verbatim \(dq--\(dq, maybe consider using \e(em"
 .Pq mdoc
 Even though the ASCII output device renders an em-dash as
@@ -1846,6 +1874,10 @@ The invalid character is discarded.
 A table layout specification contains an opening parenthesis,
 but no matching closing parenthesis.
 The rest of the input line, starting from the parenthesis, has no effect.
+.It Sy "ignoring excessive spacing in tbl layout"
+.Pq tbl
+A spacing modifier in a table layout is unreasonably large.
+The default spacing of 3n is used instead.
 .It Sy "tbl without any data cells"
 .Pq tbl
 A table does not contain any data cells.