From 0feeec8b7ee122eca332de3af7c2f791fdba8ee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 02:21:00 +0000
Subject: The .HP macro was deprecated by groff, and that makes sense because
 it serves no real purpose and works poorly with HTML. While here, describe
 the section argument of .TH, clarify the syntax display of .TP, and polish
 some wordings.

---
 man.7 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index f8e4c925..ca7e2055 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.140 2018/08/18 04:32:10 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.141 2018/12/16 02:21:00 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017, 2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -17,7 +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: August 18 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 16 2018 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ but can be found in the alphabetical reference below.
 .It Sx RS , RE Ta reset the left margin: Op Ar width
 .It Sx IP Ta indented paragraph: Op Ar head Op Ar width
 .It Sx TP Ta tagged paragraph: Op Ar width
-.It Sx HP Ta hanged paragraph: Op Ar width
 .It Sx PD Ta set vertical paragraph distance: Op Ar height
 .It Sx fi , nf Ta fill mode and no-fill mode (no arguments)
 .It Sx in Ta additional indent: Op Ar width
@@ -185,8 +184,13 @@ The
 argument is a
 .Xr roff 7
 scaling width.
-If specified, it's saved for later paragraph left-margins; if unspecified, the
-saved or default width is used.
+If specified, it's saved for later paragraph left margins;
+if unspecified, the saved or default width is used.
+.Pp
+This macro is portable, but deprecated
+because it has no good representation in HTML output,
+usually ending up indistinguishable from
+.Sx \&PP .
 .Ss \&I
 Text is rendered in italics.
 .Ss \&IB
@@ -380,6 +384,9 @@ and footer with the following syntax:
 Conventionally, the document
 .Ar name
 is given in all caps.
+The
+.Ar section
+is usually a single digit, in a few cases followed by a letter.
 The recommended
 .Ar date
 format is
@@ -399,21 +406,22 @@ uses its
 argument.
 The
 .Ar volume
-string replaces the default rendered volume, which is dictated by the
-manual section.
+string replaces the default volume title of the
+.Ar section .
 .Pp
 Examples:
 .Pp
 .Dl \&.TH CVS 5 "1992-02-12" GNU
 .Ss \&TP
 Begin a paragraph where the head, if exceeding the indentation width, is
-followed by a newline; if not, the body follows on the same line after a
-buffer to the indentation width.
+followed by a newline; if not, the body follows on the same line after
+advancing to the indentation width.
 Subsequent output lines are indented.
 The syntax is as follows:
-.Bd -filled -offset indent
-.Pf \. Sx \&TP
-.Op Ar width
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
+.Pf \. Sx \&TP Op Ar width
+.Ar head No \e" one line
+.Ar body
 .Ed
 .Pp
 The
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