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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-11-30 20:35:57 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-11-30 20:35:57 +0000
commit57f7a6c3ff960fbc1d646146afca64a3fcf43870 (patch)
treef99bee9129925911855301379087c91360a6a9e7 /share/man/man7
parentae183a1c12ff512647f2ceab3fc3c0eb30a95716 (diff)
Be more specific about what .Xo can be used for.
jmc@ calls this change "sufficient"
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/mdoc.714
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
index 5bea72953be..2e39fd06859 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.56 2010/11/28 15:45:26 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.57 2010/11/30 20:35:56 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 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: November 28 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2010 $
.Dt MDOC 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -2659,9 +2659,13 @@ and
Close a scope opened by
.Sx \&Xo .
.Ss \&Xo
-Open an extension scope.
-This macro originally existed to extend the 9-argument limit of troff;
-since this limit has been lifted, the macro has been deprecated.
+Extend the header of an
+.Sx \&It
+macro or the body of a partial-implicit block macro
+beyond the end of the input line.
+This macro originally existed to work around the 9-argument limit
+of historic
+.Xr roff 7 .
.Ss \&Xr
Link to another manual
.Pq Qq cross-reference .