* mandoc: Clarify that .Ta as a line macro is a portability problem, even
@ 2017-06-29 13:17 schwarze
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From: schwarze @ 2017-06-29 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Clarify that .Ta as a line macro is a portability problem,
even though mandoc(1) handles it;
triggered by a question from Yuri Pankov (illumos).
Modified Files:
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mandoc:
mdoc.7
Revision Data
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Index: mdoc.7
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mdoc.7,v
retrieving revision 1.266
retrieving revision 1.267
diff -Lmdoc.7 -Lmdoc.7 -u -p -r1.266 -r1.267
--- mdoc.7
+++ mdoc.7
@@ -1850,10 +1850,10 @@ The tab cell delimiter may only be used
.Sx \&It
line itself; on following lines, only the
.Sx \&Ta
-macro can be used to delimit cells, and
+macro can be used to delimit cells, and portability requires that
.Sx \&Ta
-is only recognised as a macro when called by other macros,
-not as the first macro on a line.
+is called by other macros: some parsers do not recognize it when
+it appears as the first macro on a line.
.Pp
Note that quoted strings may span tab-delimited cells on an
.Sx \&It
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