Allow `.An' to be given a -split/-nosplit flag to toggle the behavior of

causing line breaks to occur, as is present in newer versions of groff.

OK deraadt@, jmc@.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index dfd09f23317..dc1cfa61c49 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.64 2005/06/05 19:40:22 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.65 2005/09/27 18:57:17 jaredy Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.5 1996/04/03 20:17:34 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ The
 macro is used to specify the name of the author of the utility,
 or the name of the author of the man page.
 .Pp
-.Dl Usage: .An author ... \*(Pu
+.Dl Usage: .An -nosplit \*(Ba -split \*(Ba author ... \*(Pu
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width ".An John Smith ) ) ," -offset indent -compact
 .It Li "\&.An John Smith"
@@ -980,6 +980,26 @@ or the name of the author of the man page.
 .An John Smith Aq john@email.address
 .El
 .Pp
+By default,
+.Ql \&.An
+causes a line break to occur before the author name.
+The arguments
+.Fl nosplit
+and
+.Fl split
+can be used to toggle this behavior.
+For example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Sh AUTHORS
+\&.An -nosplit
+The
+\&.Nm
+utility was written by
+\&.An John Smith Aq john@email.address
+and
+\&.An Jane Doe Aq jane@email.address .
+.Ed
+.Pp
 The
 .Ql \&.An
 macro is parsed, but is not callable.