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Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc_char.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc_char.7 | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index eb9e65ac..de546496 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.78 2020/10/31 11:45:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.79 2022/06/02 14:51:41 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> -.\" Copyright (c) 2011,2013,2015,2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017-2020, 2022 +.\" Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ .\" 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 31 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 2 2022 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -220,13 +221,18 @@ where it introduces a request or a macro, and when appearing alone as a macro argument in .Xr mdoc 7 . In such situations, prepend a zero-width space -.Pq Sq \e&. +.Pq Sq \e&.\& to make it behave like normal text. .Pp -Do not use the +Do not use the character pair .Sq \e. -escape sequence. -It does not prevent special handling of the period. +to escape a period because +.Sq \e. +is not a character escape sequence, does not prevent special handling +of the period under normal circumstances, and is only intended to +be used in the very special situation of defining a user-defined +macro that, when called, defines another user-defined macro, which +no manual page is ever supposed to do. .Ss Backslashes To include a literal backslash .Pq Sq \e @@ -326,7 +332,6 @@ Punctuation: .It \e(en Ta \(en Ta en-dash .It \e(hy Ta \(hy Ta hyphen .It \ee Ta \e Ta back-slash -.It \e. Ta \. Ta period .It \e(r! Ta \(r! Ta upside-down exclamation .It \e(r? Ta \(r? Ta upside-down question .El |