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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-11-30 20:35:57 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-11-30 20:35:57 +0000 |
commit | 57f7a6c3ff960fbc1d646146afca64a3fcf43870 (patch) | |
tree | f99bee9129925911855301379087c91360a6a9e7 /share/man/man7 | |
parent | ae183a1c12ff512647f2ceab3fc3c0eb30a95716 (diff) |
Be more specific about what .Xo can be used for.
jmc@ calls this change "sufficient"
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man7')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/mdoc.7 | 14 |
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 . |