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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-08-10 22:12:40 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-08-10 22:12:40 +0000 |
| commit | 4028c4ad441097ee435889d307fa4e833f835aca (patch) | |
| tree | 2c565e953bb357a967da79740f55b88ac7ecae17 /share/man/man7 | |
| parent | The groff man-ext macros define fonts CB, CI, and CR, (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-4028c4ad441097ee435889d307fa4e833f835aca.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-4028c4ad441097ee435889d307fa4e833f835aca.zip | |
handle the non-portable GNU-style \[charNN], \[charNNN] character
escape sequences, used for example in the groff_char(7) manual page
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7 | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7 b/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7 index e464d227f8c..b7a43c060fb 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc_char.7,v 1.37 2018/08/08 14:29:42 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc_char.7,v 1.38 2018/08/10 22:12:40 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" 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 8 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 10 2018 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -761,14 +761,16 @@ For backward compatibility with existing manuals, .Xr mandoc 1 also supports the .Pp -.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq +.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq and \e[ Ns Cm char Ns Ar number ] .Pp -escape sequence, inserting the character +escape sequences, inserting the character .Ar number from the current character set into the output. Of course, this is inherently non-portable and is already marked -as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual. -For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq, use \e(dq, or even the plain +as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual; +on top of that, the second form is a GNU extension. +For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq or \e[char34], use \e(dq, +or even the plain .Sq \(dq character where possible. .Sh COMPATIBILITY |