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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-08-10 04:41:25 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-08-10 04:41:25 +0000 |
commit | fbc87aa03d8f797ab884fc9f06443bd748a82ca1 (patch) | |
tree | a7907c49ead2603c71b7e21f62f1c7f8028f7499 /roff.7 | |
parent | 7196a1d3dfecffb71c9eafd071a2a7bfcfb9b23c (diff) | |
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Implement the roff(7) .nop (no operation) request.
Examples of manual pages (ab)using it
include groff(7), chem(1), groff_mom(7), and groff_hdtbl(7).
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
-rw-r--r-- | roff.7 | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.96 2018/04/10 00:52:30 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.97 2018/08/10 04:41:25 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010-2018 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: April 10 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 10 2018 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Unescaped trailing spaces are stripped from text line input unless in a literal context. In general, trailing whitespace on any input line is discouraged for reasons of portability. -In the rare case that a blank character is needed at the end of an +In the rare case that a space character is needed at the end of an input line, it may be forced by .Sq \e\ \e& . .Pp @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ produces .Pp in the input stream, and thus in the output: \fI\^XtFree\^\fP. Each occurrence of \e\e$* is replaced with all the arguments, -joined together with single blank characters. +joined together with single space characters. .Pp Since macros and user-defined strings share a common string table, defining a macro @@ -1346,8 +1346,11 @@ Currently unsupported. Temporarily turn off line numbering. Currently unsupported. .It Ic \&nop Ar body -Execute the rest of the input line as a request or macro line. -Currently unsupported. +Execute the rest of the input line as a request, macro, or text line, +skipping the +.Ic \&nop +request and any space characters immediately following it. +This is mostly used to indent text lines inside macro definitions. .It Ic \&nr Ar register Oo Cm + Ns | Ns Cm - Oc Ns Ar expression Op Ar stepsize Define or change a register. A register is an arbitrary string value that defines some sort of state, |