From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (fantadrom.bsd.lv [local]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 557596d9 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:17:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:17:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5233459724155683366.enqueue@fantadrom.bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mandoc-source Reply-To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: mandoc: Clarify that .Ta as a line macro is a portability problem, even X-Mailer: activitymail 1.26, http://search.cpan.org/dist/activitymail/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Log Message: ----------- 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: -------------- mandoc: mdoc.7 Revision Data ------------- Index: mdoc.7 =================================================================== 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to source+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv