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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2010-01-01 13:35:30 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2010-01-01 13:35:30 +0000
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Documented `Fl' in mdoc.7.
Backed out stipulation that `Fl ""' is ignored: this is not the case in !OpenBSD groffs.
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+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.78 2009/11/16 09:52:47 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.79 2010/01/01 13:35:30 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 16 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2010 $
.Dt MDOC 7
.Os
.
@@ -1596,6 +1596,22 @@ is provided.
.Ss \&Fc
.Ss \&Fd
.Ss \&Fl
+Command-line flag. Used when listing arguments to command-line
+utilities. Prints a fixed-width hyphen
+.Sq \-
+before each delimited argument. If no arguments are provided, a hyphen
+is still printed.
+.Pp
+Examples:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Fl a b c
+\&.Fl
+\&.Op Fl o Ns Ar file
+.Ed
+.Pp
+See also
+.Sx \&Cm .
+.
.Ss \&Fn
.Ss \&Fo
.Ss \&Fr
@@ -1830,6 +1846,12 @@ file re-write
.Pp
.Bl -dash -compact
.It
+Historic
+.Xr groff 1
+does not print a dash for empty
+.Sx \&Fl
+arguments. This behaviour has been discontinued.
+.It
.Xr groff 1
behaves strangely (even between versions) when specifying
.Sq \ef