From: schwarze@mdocml.bsd.lv
To: source@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: mdocml: 1) Remove documentation of the groff-1.15 compatibility quirk of
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:38:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208292338.q7TNcpVI021999@krisdoz.my.domain> (raw)
Log Message:
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1) Remove documentation of the groff-1.15 compatibility quirk
of suppressing spacing before a third .Xr argument
because that quirk was removed in mdoc_macro.c rev. 1.113.
2) Mark the "section" argument to .Xr as (syntactically) optional,
but still do not encourage omitting it.
The missing .Op was reported by espie@.
Wording tweaked by and ok jmc@, ok millert@.
Modified Files:
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mdocml:
mdoc.7
Revision Data
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Index: mdoc.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/mdoc.7,v
retrieving revision 1.215
retrieving revision 1.216
diff -Lmdoc.7 -Lmdoc.7 -u -p -r1.215 -r1.216
--- mdoc.7
+++ mdoc.7
@@ -2532,20 +2532,14 @@ Link to another manual
.Pq Qq cross-reference .
Its syntax is as follows:
.Pp
-.D1 Pf \. Sx \&Xr Ar name section
+.D1 Pf \. Sx \&Xr Ar name Op section
.Pp
-The
+Cross reference the
.Ar name
and
.Ar section
-are the name and section of the linked manual.
-If
-.Ar section
-is followed by non-punctuation, an
-.Sx \&Ns
-is inserted into the token stream.
-This behaviour is for compatibility with
-GNU troff.
+number of another man page;
+omitting the section number is rarely useful.
.Pp
Examples:
.Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1
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