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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-11-16 09:52:47 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-11-16 09:52:47 +0000
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More clarification in manuals. Added per-OUTPUT section in mandoc.1.
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.28 2009/11/12 08:21:05 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.29 2009/11/16 09:52:47 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: November 12 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 16 2009 $
.Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7
.Os
.
@@ -76,25 +76,6 @@ Note that each output mode will have a different rendering of the
characters. It's guaranteed that each input symbol will correspond to a
(more or less) meaningful output rendering, regardless the mode.
.
-.Ss ASCII output
-Formatting documents with ASCII output results in a 7-bit ASCII
-approximation of zero or more characters, for example, the
-.Dq aleph
-character
-.Sq \e(Ah
-will render as
-.Sq N .
-Approximations are a best-effort, and naturally some clarity will be lost.
-.
-.Ss HTML output
-The HTML output mode uses decimal-encoded UTF-8 for sequences, for
-example, the
-.Dq aleph
-character
-.Sq \e(Ah
-will render as
-.Sq &#8501; .
-.
.
.Sh SPECIAL CHARACTERS
These are the preferred input symbols for producing special characters.