The upcoming .while request will have to re-execute roff(7) lines

[mandoc.git] / mandoc_char.7

diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7
index f63cdaea8fcc88a6a85e51e7fc6036a6c7a043ba..8fe71b0cf2095ba64851635b3011170c8ba02e2c 100644 (file)
--- a/mandoc_char.7
+++ b/mandoc_char.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.72 2018/08/08 14:30:48 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.74 2018/08/21 01:59:22 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
@@ -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.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 8 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 21 2018 $
 .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -543,11 +543,13 @@ Accented letters:
 .It \e(\(aqI Ta \('I        Ta acute I
 .It \e(\(aqO Ta \('O        Ta acute O
 .It \e(\(aqU Ta \('U        Ta acute U
+.It \e(\(aqY Ta \('Y        Ta acute Y
 .It \e(\(aqa Ta \('a        Ta acute a
 .It \e(\(aqe Ta \('e        Ta acute e
 .It \e(\(aqi Ta \('i        Ta acute i
 .It \e(\(aqo Ta \('o        Ta acute o
 .It \e(\(aqu Ta \('u        Ta acute u
+.It \e(\(aqy Ta \('y        Ta acute y
 .It \e(\(gaA Ta \(`A        Ta grave A
 .It \e(\(gaE Ta \(`E        Ta grave E
 .It \e(\(gaI Ta \(`I        Ta grave I
@@ -761,14 +763,16 @@ For backward compatibility with existing manuals,
 .Xr mandoc 1
 also supports the
 .Pp
-.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq
+.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq and \e[ Ns Cm char Ns Ar number ]
 .Pp
-escape sequence, inserting the character
+escape sequences, inserting the character
 .Ar number
 from the current character set into the output.
 Of course, this is inherently non-portable and is already marked
-as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual.
-For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq, use \e(dq, or even the plain
+as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual;
+on top of that, the second form is a GNU extension.
+For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq or \e[char34], use \e(dq,
+or even the plain
 .Sq \(dq
 character where possible.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY