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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2010-08-22 14:54:29 +0000
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Sort COMPATIBILITY in mdoc(7) (from schwarze@).
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-.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.81 2010/08/06 17:07:11 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.82 2010/08/22 14:54:29 kristaps Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\"
@@ -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: August 6 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 22 2010 $
.Dt MAN 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -917,24 +917,39 @@ language.
.Pp
.Bl -dash -compact
.It
-The \es (font size), \em (font colour), and \eM (font filling colour)
-font decoration escapes are all discarded in mandoc.
-.It
In quoted literals, GNU troff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce
a standalone double-quote in formatted output.
It is not known whether this behaviour is exhibited by other formatters.
.It
+troff suppresses a newline before
+.Sq \(aq
+macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard
+.Sq \&.
+control character.
+.It
+The
+.Sq \eh
+.Pq horizontal position ,
+.Sq \ev
+.Pq vertical position ,
+.Sq \em
+.Pq text colour ,
+.Sq \eM
+.Pq text filling colour ,
+and
+.Sq \es
+.Pq text size
+.Sx Text Decoration
+escapes are all discarded in mandoc.
+.It
+The
+.Sq \ef
+scaling unit is accepted by mandoc, but rendered as the default unit.
+.It
The
.Sx \&sp
macro does not accept negative values in mandoc.
In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour.
-.It
-The
-.Sq \(aq
-macro control character, in GNU troff (and prior troffs) suppresses a
-newline before macro output; in mandoc, it is an alias for the standard
-.Sq \&.
-control character.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mandoc 1 ,