More manual documentation fixed/improved.

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index 40bffea7..8cc56b2b 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.6 2009/03/22 19:08:53 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.7 2009/03/23 09:42:43 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 .\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 22 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 23 2009 $
 .Dt mandoc 1
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -118,14 +118,19 @@ and
 .El
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
-Note that reserved words may occur in streams of text, so the following:
+Note that reserved words only register as such as if they appear as
+standalone tokens, either in parsed lines or streams of text.  Thus, the
+following fragment:
 .Bd -literal -offset XXXX
 this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man
 .Ed
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 .Pp
 \&...correctly adjusts the comma spacing to
-.Qq this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man .
+.Dq this self is not that of the waking , empirically real man .
+However, if the comma were part of 
+.Dq ,empirically ,
+it would not.
 .\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Output Formats
 The
@@ -193,18 +198,28 @@ mode doesn't yet know how to display the following:
 The \-hang 
 .Sq \&Bl
 list is not yet supported.
+.El
+.Pp
+Other macros still aren't supported by virtue of nobody complaining
+about their absence.  Please report any omissions: this is a work in
+progress.
+.Pp
+The following list documents differences between traditional
+.Xr nroff 1
+output and
+.Nm :
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It 
+A list of display following
+.Sq \&Ss
+does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
+.Sq \&Sh .
+.It
+Special characters don't follow the current font style.
 .\" LIST-ITEM
 .It
 The \-literal and \-unfilled 
 .Sq \&Bd
 displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
-.\" LIST-ITEM
-.It
-The
-.Sq \&Bd
-macro doesn't process \-compact .
 .El
-.Pp
-Other macros still aren't supported by virtue of nobody complaining
-about their absence.  Please report any omissions: this is a work in
-progress.