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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-11-12 08:00:21 +0000
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Deprecated ".i <notext>" support (nobody uses it -- it can be re-added, but adds a bit of complexity that I'd rather avoid).
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-.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.50 2009/11/12 05:50:12 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.51 2009/11/12 08:00:21 kristaps Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
.\"
@@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ End literal mode begun by
.
.
.Ss \&i
-Italicise arguments. If no arguments are specified, all subsequent text
-is italicised.
+Italicise arguments. Synonym for
+.Sx \&I .
.Pp
See also
.Sx \&B ,
@@ -982,14 +982,21 @@ See also
This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at
this time limited to
.Xr groff 1 .
-.Bl -hyphen
+.Pp
+.Bl -dash -compact
+.It
+The
+.Xr groff 1
+.Sx \&i
+macro will italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not
+provided. This behaviour is not implemented.
.It
In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a
standalone double-quote in formatted output. This idiosyncratic
behaviour is no longer applicable.
.It
The
-.Sq sp
+.Sx \&sp
macro does not accept negative numbers.
.It
Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text