From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv
To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: mandoc: update DESCRIPTION and COMPATIBILITY, mostly correcting
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:32:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <381bd20efc8178cb@fantadrom.bsd.lv> (raw)
Log Message:
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update DESCRIPTION and COMPATIBILITY, mostly correcting statements
from the past that are no longer true
Modified Files:
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mandoc:
roff.7
Revision Data
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Index: roff.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.106
retrieving revision 1.107
diff -Lroff.7 -Lroff.7 -u -p -r1.106 -r1.107
--- roff.7
+++ roff.7
@@ -39,17 +39,14 @@ or
code.
To properly format such manuals, the
.Xr mandoc 1
-utility supports a tiny subset of
+utility supports a subset of
.Nm
requests and escapes.
-Only these requests and escapes supported by
+Even though this manual page lists all
+.Nm
+requests, it only has partial information about requests not supported by
.Xr mandoc 1
-are documented in the present manual,
-together with the basic language syntax shared by
-.Nm ,
-.Xr mdoc 7 ,
-and
-.Xr man 7 .
+and about language features that do not matter for manual pages.
For complete
.Nm
manuals, consult the
@@ -193,7 +190,6 @@ Many requests and macros support scaled
The syntax for a scaled width is
.Sq Li [+-]?[0-9]*.[0-9]*[:unit:] ,
where a decimal must be preceded or followed by at least one digit.
-Negative numbers, while accepted, are truncated to zero.
.Pp
The following scaling units are accepted:
.Pp
@@ -2123,8 +2119,8 @@ The
.Xr mandoc 1
implementation of the
.Nm
-language is intentionally incomplete.
-Unimplemented features include:
+language is incomplete.
+Major unimplemented features include:
.Pp
.Bl -dash -compact
.It
@@ -2135,10 +2131,9 @@ never reads or writes external files exc
requests with safe relative paths.
.It
There is no automatic hyphenation, no adjustment to the right margin,
-and no centering; the output is always set flush-left.
+and very limited support for centering; the output is always set flush-left.
.It
-Support for setting tabulator positions
-and tabulator and leader characters is missing,
+Support for setting tabulator and leader characters is missing,
and support for manually changing indentation is limited.
.It
The
@@ -2149,14 +2144,14 @@ output media.
.It
Width measurements are implemented in a crude way
and often yield wrong results.
-Explicit movement requests and escapes are ignored.
+Support for explicit movement requests and escapes is limited.
.It
There is no concept of output pages, no support for floats,
graphics drawing, and picture inclusion;
terminal output is always continuous.
.It
-Requests regarding color, font families, and glyph manipulation
-are ignored.
+Requests regarding color, font families, font sizes,
+and glyph manipulation are ignored.
Font support is very limited.
Kerning is not implemented, and no ligatures are produced.
.It
@@ -2164,8 +2159,12 @@ The
.Qq \(aq
macro control character does not suppress output line breaks.
.It
-Diversions are not implemented,
+Diversions and environments are not implemented,
and support for traps is very incomplete.
+.It
+Use of macros is not supported inside
+.Xr tbl 7
+code.
.El
.Pp
The special semantics of the
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