From a39b97ef0c1432973b5d815709925a82507c100b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:22:44 +0000
Subject: Added mandoc_a2time() for proper date conversion. Fitted TH and Dd
 handlers to use mandoc_a2time(). Documented date syntax for -man, fixed
 documentation for -mdoc.

---
 man.7 | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man.7')

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index d94497dc..c3b313a9 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.42 2009/10/31 08:37:26 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.43 2009/11/02 06:22:45 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: October 31 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2009 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .
@@ -119,6 +119,23 @@ from input.  These are later re-added, if applicable, by a front-end
 utility such as
 .Xr mandoc 1 .
 .
+.Ss Dates
+The
+.Sx \&TH
+macro is the only
+.Nm
+macro that requires a date.  The form for this date is the ISO-8601
+standard
+.Cm YYYY-MM-DD .
+.
+.Ss Scaling Widths
+Many macros support scaled widths for their arguments, such as
+stipulating a two-inch list indentation with the following:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Bl -tag -width 2i
+.Ed
+.
+.
 .Ss Scaling Widths
 Many macros support scaled widths for their arguments, such as
 stipulating a two-inch paragraph indentation with the following:
@@ -202,7 +219,7 @@ Beyond
 at least one macro or text node must appear in the document.  Documents
 are generally structured as follows:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
-\&.TH FOO 1 "13 Aug 2009"
+\&.TH FOO 1 2009-10-10
 \&.
 \&.SH NAME
 \efBfoo\efR \e(en a description goes here
@@ -614,26 +631,29 @@ subsequent sub-section, section, or end of file.  The paragraph
 left-margin width is re-set to the default.
 .Ss \&TH
 Sets the title of the manual page with the following syntax:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-\&.TH title section [date [source [volume]]]
-.Ed
-.
 .Pp
-At least the 
-.Va title
-and
-.Va section
+.D1 \. Ns Sx \&TH No Cm title msec Op Cm date Op Cm src Op Cm vol
+.Pp
+At least the upper-case document title
+.Cm title
+and numeric manual section
+.Cm msec
 arguments must be provided.  The
-.Va date
-argument should be formatted as
-.Qq %b [%d] %Y
-format, described in
-.Xr strptime 3 .
-The
-.Va source
+.Cm date
+argument should be formatted as described in
+.Sx Dates :
+if it does not conform, the current date is used instead.  The
+.Cm src
 string specifies the organisation providing the utility.  The
-.Va volume
-replaces the default rendered volume as dictated by the manual section.
+.Cm vol
+string replaces the default rendered volume, which is dictated by the
+manual section.
+.Pp
+Examples:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.TH CVS 5 "1992-02-12" GNU
+.Ed
+.
 .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
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