From f2ddfbfe82c8d980d204eb501343ff94da2d568c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:00:41 +0000
Subject: man.7/mdoc.7 properly reflect escape-character handling. man.7 points
 to mdoc.7 for COMPATIBILITY. Whitespace stripping noted in mdoc.7.

---
 man.7 | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man.7')

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index b6bd47ba..fe2b2b8f 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.17 2009/06/25 11:35:28 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.18 2009/07/04 09:00:41 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 25 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2009 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -95,7 +95,12 @@ or a single one-character sequence.
 .Pp
 Characters may alternatively be escaped by a slash-asterisk,
 .Sq \e* ,
-with the same combinations as described above.  This form is deprecated.  
+with the same combinations as described above.
+.Pp
+Terms may also be text-decorated using the
+.Sq \ef
+escape followed by a text-decoration letter: B (bold), I, (italic), or P
+and R (Roman, or reset).
 .\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Whitespace
 Unless specifically escaped, consecutive blocks of whitespace are pruned
@@ -218,6 +223,11 @@ These follow the same calling conventions as the above
 .Nm
 macros.
 .\" SECTION
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+See
+.Xr mdoc 7
+for groff compatibility notes.
+.\" SECTION
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7
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