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diff --git a/share/man/man7/roff.7 b/share/man/man7/roff.7
index c295288efed..4ebdcdf828a 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/roff.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.18 2011/12/11 00:38:08 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.19 2012/07/29 12:57:45 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 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: December 11 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2012 $
.Dt ROFF 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ depends on the respective processing context.
.Nm
documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space
character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character.
-The back-space character
+The backslash character
.Sq \e
indicates the start of an escape sequence for
.Sx Comments ,
@@ -415,6 +415,18 @@ The syntax of this request is the same as that of
It is currently ignored by
.Xr mandoc 1 ,
as are its children.
+.Ss \&cc
+Changes the control character.
+Its syntax is as follows:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+.Pf . Cm \&cc Op Ar c
+.Ed
+.Pp
+If
+.Ar c
+is not specified, the control character is reset to
+.Sq \&. .
+Trailing characters are ignored.
.Ss \&de
Define a
.Nm