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[mandoc.git] / mdoc.7

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index ff47d5aed9dff7f6e4b0e3ae9335da4db822ec9a..363278072cafea51fa7cb404a64df35c882670b2 100644 (file)
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.159 2010/09/26 19:46:48 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.169 2010/12/06 16:37:32 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 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: September 26 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 6 2010 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -604,20 +604,21 @@ closes it out.
 .Pp
 The
 .Em Callable
-column indicates that the macro may be called subsequent to the initial
-line-macro.
-If a macro is not callable, then its invocation after the initial line
-macro is interpreted as opaque text, such that
+column indicates that the macro may also be called by passing its name
+as an argument to another macro.
+If a macro is not callable but its name appears as an argument
+to another macro, it is interpreted as opaque text.
+For example,
 .Sq \&.Fl \&Sh
 produces
 .Sq Fl \&Sh .
 .Pp
 The
 .Em Parsed
-column indicates whether the macro may be followed by further
-(ostensibly callable) macros.
-If a macro is not parsed, subsequent macro invocations on the line
-will be interpreted as opaque text.
+column indicates whether the macro may call other macros by receiving
+their names as arguments.
+If a macro is not parsed but the name of another macro appears
+as an argument, it is interpreted as opaque text.
 .Pp
 The
 .Em Scope
@@ -1646,6 +1647,7 @@ It must be one of
 .Ar luna88k ,
 .Ar mac68k ,
 .Ar macppc ,
+.Ar mips64 ,
 .Ar mvme68k ,
 .Ar mvme88k ,
 .Ar mvmeppc ,
@@ -1869,6 +1871,9 @@ Examples:
 \&.Fn funcname
 .Ed
 .Pp
+When referring to a function documented in another manual page, use
+.Sx \&Xr
+instead.
 See also
 .Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE
 and
@@ -2119,6 +2124,9 @@ Examples:
 Format a
 .Dq mailto:
 hyperlink.
+If an argument is not provided, the string
+.Dq \(ti
+is used as a default.
 Its syntax is as follows:
 .Pp
 .D1 Pf \. Sx \&Mt Cm address
@@ -2300,6 +2308,9 @@ and
 .Sx \&Ux .
 .Ss \&Pa
 A file-system path.
+If an argument is not provided, the string
+.Dq \(ti
+is used as a default.
 .Pp
 Examples:
 .D1 \&.Pa /usr/bin/mandoc
@@ -2710,10 +2721,10 @@ troff implementations, at this time limited to GNU troff
 .Pq Qq groff .
 The term
 .Qq historic groff
-refers to groff versions before the
+refers to groff versions before 1.17,
+which featured a significant update of the
 .Pa doc.tmac
-file re-write
-.Pq somewhere between 1.15 and 1.19 .
+file.
 .Pp
 Heirloom troff, the other significant troff implementation accepting
 \-mdoc, is similar to historic groff.
@@ -2723,6 +2734,11 @@ The following problematic behaviour is found in groff:
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+Display macros
+.Pq Sx \&Bd , Sx \&Dl , and Sx \&D1
+may not be nested.
+\*[hist]
+.It
 .Sx \&At
 with unknown arguments produces no output at all.
 \*[hist]
@@ -2804,6 +2820,11 @@ can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line.
 .Sx \&%C
 is not implemented.
 .It
+Historic groff only allows up to eight or nine arguments per macro input
+line, depending on the exact situation.
+Providing more arguments causes garbled output.
+The number of arguments on one input line is not limited with mandoc.
+.It
 Historic groff has many un-callable macros.
 Most of these (excluding some block-level macros) are callable
 in new groff and mandoc.