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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-01-21 20:20:50 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-01-21 20:20:50 +0000
commit41fcb587e1028cd0659bd8144057209737ff5c5f (patch)
tree40132ee4cadf906947d5b4f7ec3aa3c9f7748f4b /share/man
parent0444d7efb14b63f822ba4d7bb5d5b2f00fe35079 (diff)
Rudimentary implementation of the roff(7) \o escape sequence (overstrike).
This is of some relevance because the pod2man(1) preamble abuses it for the icelandic letter Thorn, instead of simply using \(TP and \(Tp. Missing feature found by sthen@ in DateTime::Locale::is_IS(3p).
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/roff.713
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/roff.7 b/share/man/man7/roff.7
index 3930005a9ff..f6399c62479 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/roff.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.43 2015/01/20 22:34:15 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.44 2015/01/21 20:20:49 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 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 20 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2015 $
.Dt ROFF 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1946,10 +1946,11 @@ For short names, there are variants
and
.No \en( Ns Ar cc .
.Ss \eo\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq
-Overstrike
-.Ar string ;
-ignored by
-.Xr mandoc 1 .
+Overstrike, that is, write all the characters contained in the
+.Ar string
+to the same output position.
+In terminal and HTML output modes,
+only the last one of the characters is visible.
.Ss \eR\(aq Ns Ar name Oo +|- Oc Ns Ar number Ns \(aq
Set number register; ignored by
.Xr mandoc 1 .