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Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc.1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.231 2018/11/22 11:30:23 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.232 2018/12/15 19:30:26 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 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: November 22 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 15 2018 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1676,7 +1676,8 @@ Start it on a new input line to help formatters produce correct spacing. .It Sy "invalid escape sequence" .Pq roff An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the -closing argument delimiter, or the argument has too few characters. +closing argument delimiter, the argument is of an invalid form, or it is +a character escape sequence with an invalid name. If the argument is incomplete, .Ic \e* and @@ -1689,6 +1690,12 @@ and .Ic \ew to the length of the incomplete argument. All other invalid escape sequences are ignored. +.It Sy "undefined escape, printing literally" +.Pq roff +In an escape sequence, the first character +right after the leading backslash is invalid. +That character is printed literally, +which is equivalent to ignoring the backslash. .It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq roff If a string is used without being defined before, @@ -2154,6 +2161,13 @@ implementations but not by .Nm was found in an input file. It is replaced by a question mark. +.It Sy "unsupported escape sequence" +.Pq roff +An input file contains an escape sequence supported by GNU troff +or Heirloom troff but not by +.Nm , +and it is likely that this will cause information loss +or considerable misformatting. .It Sy "unsupported roff request" .Pq roff An input file contains a |