Both old and new groff behave in the following way: Literal tabs are

considered normal word characters even when delimiting column phrases
in .Bl -column.  Thus, in any column but the last, if the column is
terminated by a literal tab, and the last character is a solitary dot,
that dot is NOT considered punctuation, and consequently offset from
the preceding text by a blank space.  This space does not occur when the
Ta macro is used inmstead of a literal tab, or when a blank character is
inserted between the dot and the tab.

Confused now?  So were we.
We decided to consider that a bug in groff, not a feature,
and to not emulate it in mandoc(1).
Thus, let operator(7) no longer depend on that groff bug.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man7/operator.7 b/share/man/man7/operator.7
index 1bed55a039a..c85302184a7 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/operator.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/operator.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: operator.7,v 1.7 2007/05/31 19:19:58 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: operator.7,v 1.8 2010/09/05 19:12:36 schwarze Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: operator.7,v 1.3 1994/11/30 19:07:26 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)operator.7	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 5 2010 $
 .Dt OPERATOR 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 .Bl -column "= += -= *= /= %= <<= >>= &= ^= |="
 .It Operator	Associativity
 .It --------	-------------
-.It \&() [] -> .	left to right
+.It \&() [] -> \&.	left to right
 .It "! ~ ++ -- - (type) * & sizeof"	right to left
 .It \&* / %	left to right
 .It \&+ -	left to right