From 632038c8c98f1c408bb368edf910b849f186dc8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:13:28 +0000
Subject: Modernised comment handling: text following \" is thrown away before
 either parser is invoked.  Single-dot lines correctly handled.  This confirms
 with both new- and old-groff.  "Comment" subsection added to mdoc.7 and
 man.7.

---
 man.7 | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man.7')

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index e9dd35d9..fa473867 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.12 2009/06/11 07:26:35 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.13 2009/06/16 19:13:28 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 11 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 16 2009 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ escape is common in historical
 documents; if encountered at the end of a word, it ensures that the
 subsequent word isn't off-set by whitespace.
 .\" SUB-SECTION
+.Ss Comments
+Anything following a
+.Sq \e" 
+delimiter is considered a comment (unless the 
+.Sq \e
+itself has been escaped) and is ignored to the end of line.
+Furthermore, a macro line with only a control character
+.Sq \. ,
+optionally followed by whitespace, is ignored.
+.\" SUB-SECTION
 .Ss Special Characters
 Special character sequences begin with the escape character
 .Sq \e
-- 
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