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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-01-30 16:05:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-01-30 16:05:37 +0000 |
| commit | b60f8021eeb3855308829414f20eca4897096fa7 (patch) | |
| tree | fde633a186759120328c6e6ae9c0e5f2bd8fbe5a /mandoc_char.7 | |
| parent | 739c1eaf9cb6f5ff01a9c080620dfb1542000215 (diff) | |
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Implement the \N'number' (numbered character) roff escape sequence.
Don't use it in new manuals, it is inherently non-portable, but we
need it for backward-compatibility with existing manuals, for example
in Xenocara driver pages.
ok kristaps@ jmc@ and tested by Matthieu Herrb (matthieu at openbsd dot org)
Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc_char.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc_char.7 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index ff693d77..2bc9baa4 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.40 2010/10/29 00:05:53 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.41 2011/01/30 16:05:37 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 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: October 29 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 30 2011 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -513,6 +513,21 @@ implementations: .It \e*(aa Ta \*(aa Ta acute .It \e*(ga Ta \*(ga Ta grave .El +.Sh NUMBERED CHARACTERS +For backward compatibility with existing manuals, +.Xr mandoc 1 +also supports the +.Pp +.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +.Pp +escape sequence, inserting the character +.Ar number +from the current character set into the output. +Of course, this is inherently non-portable and is already marked +as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual. +For example, do not use \eN'34', use \e(dq, or even the plain +.Sq \(dq +character where possible. .Sh COMPATIBILITY This section documents compatibility of .Nm |