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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2017-06-29 13:16:39 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2017-06-29 13:16:39 +0000 |
| commit | e1875e55adf1c699b57fb97e9454bc09ba311c48 (patch) | |
| tree | 8218a65f042f38c1d9b7474e215b2690b611c4ef /share/man/man7 | |
| parent | 0xd4d4d4d4 is a useful 'trap instruction' on arm64, but not on arm32. (diff) | |
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Clarify that .Ta as a line macro is a portability problem,
even though mandoc(1) handles it;
triggered by a question from Yuri Pankov (illumos).
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/mdoc.7 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 index 0e98b2f998b..44ac9412db5 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.154 2017/06/24 13:49:19 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.155 2017/06/29 13:16:39 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" 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 24 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 29 2017 $ .Dt MDOC 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1863,10 +1863,10 @@ The tab cell delimiter may only be used within the .Sx \&It line itself; on following lines, only the .Sx \&Ta -macro can be used to delimit cells, and +macro can be used to delimit cells, and portability requires that .Sx \&Ta -is only recognised as a macro when called by other macros, -not as the first macro on a line. +is called by other macros: some parsers do not recognize it when +it appears as the first macro on a line. .Pp Note that quoted strings may span tab-delimited cells on an .Sx \&It |