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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2020-02-13 18:31:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2020-02-13 18:31:56 +0000 |
| commit | 935efc70d24a26c8a7678306cd4f750a76dba67e (patch) | |
| tree | 0d2a3cc4fb4eb73c84902171d939ef5229668571 /share/man/man7 | |
| parent | 35a921281bad6a5efee3d79c83598e0cff0011b2 (diff) | |
Mention that the .Dd "date" argument is the date of the last change.
Triggered by a question from Jason A. Donenfeld.
While here, delete three COMPATIBILITY entries that i fixed some time ago.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/mdoc.7 | 21 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 index 810ec534f83..acc22670cf2 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.169 2020/01/19 17:59:00 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.170 2020/02/13 18:31:55 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2020 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: January 19 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2020 $ .Dt MDOC 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1203,7 +1203,8 @@ Close a block. Does not have any tail arguments. .It Ic \&Dd Cm $\&Mdocdate$ | Ar month day , year -Document date for display in the page footer. +Document date for display in the page footer, +by convention the date of the last change. This is the mandatory first macro of any .Nm manual. @@ -3096,17 +3097,6 @@ The following problematic behaviour is found in groff: .Pp .Bl -dash -compact .It -.Ic \&Dd -with non-standard arguments behaves very strangely. -When there are three arguments, they are printed verbatim. -Any other number of arguments is replaced by the current date, -but without any arguments the string -.Dq Epoch -is printed. -.It -.Ic \&Lk -only accepts a single link-name argument; the remainder is misformatted. -.It .Ic \&Pa does not format its arguments when used in the FILES section under certain list types. @@ -3114,9 +3104,6 @@ certain list types. .Ic \&Ta can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line. .It -.Ic \&%C -is not implemented (up to and including groff-1.22.2). -.It .Sq \ef .Pq font face and |