From 0e3a34d005ada7fe44f2109d7f478eaa1cdebbfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristaps Dzonsons Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:21 +0000 Subject: Deprecated ".i " support (nobody uses it -- it can be re-added, but adds a bit of complexity that I'd rather avoid). --- man.7 | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'man.7') diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7 index 5fb7d94d..5a2bc440 100644 --- a/man.7 +++ b/man.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.50 2009/11/12 05:50:12 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.51 2009/11/12 08:00:21 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" @@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ End literal mode begun by . . .Ss \&i -Italicise arguments. If no arguments are specified, all subsequent text -is italicised. +Italicise arguments. Synonym for +.Sx \&I . .Pp See also .Sx \&B , @@ -982,14 +982,21 @@ See also This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at this time limited to .Xr groff 1 . -.Bl -hyphen +.Pp +.Bl -dash -compact +.It +The +.Xr groff 1 +.Sx \&i +macro will italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not +provided. This behaviour is not implemented. .It In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a standalone double-quote in formatted output. This idiosyncratic behaviour is no longer applicable. .It The -.Sq sp +.Sx \&sp macro does not accept negative numbers. .It Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text -- cgit v1.2.3-56-ge451