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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2015-01-21 20:33:25 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2015-01-21 20:33:25 +0000
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Rudimentary implementation of the roff(7) \o escape sequence (overstrike).
This is of some relevance because the pod2man(1) preamble abuses it for the icelandic letter Thorn, instead of simply using \(TP and \(Tp. Missing feature found by sthen@ in DateTime::Locale::is_IS(3p).
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diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index 2c1b98f6..c8c37cc0 100644
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.64 2015/01/20 22:45:07 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.65 2015/01/21 20:33:25 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 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: January 20 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2015 $
.Dt ROFF 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1948,10 +1948,11 @@ For short names, there are variants
and
.No \en( Ns Ar cc .
.Ss \eo\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq
-Overstrike
-.Ar string ;
-ignored by
-.Xr mandoc 1 .
+Overstrike, that is, write all the characters contained in the
+.Ar string
+to the same output position.
+In terminal and HTML output modes,
+only the last one of the characters is visible.
.Ss \eR\(aq Ns Ar name Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar number Ns \(aq
Set number register; ignored by
.Xr mandoc 1 .