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| author |   Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2012-01-03 15:16:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2012-01-03 15:16:24 +0000 |
| commit | d346448c959f7b9855c02917b358cfb0da2525e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1339709d2371873603f713f958f83cc8daa1a231 /man.7 | |
| parent | 484b430b59995e6ddf4b84461fdcc0c3a757addb (diff) | |
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Add support for `OP', one of the extended man macros. This also requires
some man(7) changes to accomodate for the an-ext compatibility.
Diffstat (limited to 'man.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man.7 | 31 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.112 2011/12/02 01:37:14 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.113 2012/01/03 15:16:24 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2011 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: December 2 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 3 2012 $ .Dt MAN 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -272,6 +272,10 @@ in the alphabetical reference below. .It Sx RB Ta alternate between roman and boldface fonts .It Sx RI Ta alternate between roman and italic fonts .El +.Ss Semantic markup +.Bl -column "PP, LP, P" description +.It Sx OP Ta optional arguments +.El .Sh MACRO REFERENCE This section is a canonical reference to all macros, arranged alphabetically. @@ -437,6 +441,19 @@ See also .Sx \&PP , and .Sx \&TP . +.Ss \&OP +Optional command-line argument. +This has the following syntax: +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.Pf \. Sx \&OP +.Cm key Op Cm value +.Ed +.Pp +The +.Cm key +is usually a command-line flag and +.Cm value +its argument. .Ss \&P Synonym for .Sx \&LP . @@ -691,6 +708,7 @@ The syntax is as follows: .It Sx \&I Ta n Ta next-line Ta \& .It Sx \&IB Ta n Ta current Ta \& .It Sx \&IR Ta n Ta current Ta \& +.It Sx \&OP Ta 0, 1 Ta current Ta compat .It Sx \&R Ta n Ta next-line Ta \& .It Sx \&RB Ta n Ta current Ta \& .It Sx \&RI Ta n Ta current Ta \& @@ -854,6 +872,12 @@ number when no is given, like in .Xr mdoc 7 . .El +.Pp +The +.Sx OP +macro is part of the extended +.Nm +macro set, and may not be portable to non-GNU troff implementations. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr man 1 , .Xr mandoc 1 , @@ -869,6 +893,9 @@ language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting system in .At v7 . It was later rewritten by James Clark as a macro package for groff. +Eric S. Raymond wrote the extended +.Nm +macros for groff in 2007. The stand-alone implementation that is part of the .Xr mandoc 1 utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in |