From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv
To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: mandoc: Mention that the .Dd "date" argument is the date of the last
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:33:27 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecf58b3848985694@mandoc.bsd.lv> (raw)
Log Message:
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Mention that the .Dd "date" argument is the date of the last change.
Triggered by a question from Jason A. Donenfeld.
While here, delete three COMPATIBILITY entries that i fixed some time ago.
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 1.280
retrieving revision 1.281
diff -Lmdoc.7 -Lmdoc.7 -u -p -r1.280 -r1.281
--- mdoc.7
+++ mdoc.7
@@ -1203,7 +1203,8 @@ Close a
block.
Does not have any tail arguments.
.It Ic \&Dd Cm $\&Mdocdate$ | Ar month day , year
-Document date for display in the page footer.
+Document date for display in the page footer,
+by convention the date of the last change.
This is the mandatory first macro of any
.Nm
manual.
@@ -3084,26 +3085,12 @@ The following problematic behaviour is f
.Pp
.Bl -dash -compact
.It
-.Ic \&Dd
-with non-standard arguments behaves very strangely.
-When there are three arguments, they are printed verbatim.
-Any other number of arguments is replaced by the current date,
-but without any arguments the string
-.Dq Epoch
-is printed.
-.It
-.Ic \&Lk
-only accepts a single link-name argument; the remainder is misformatted.
-.It
.Ic \&Pa
does not format its arguments when used in the FILES section under
certain list types.
.It
.Ic \&Ta
can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line.
-.It
-.Ic \&%C
-is not implemented (up to and including groff-1.22.2).
.It
.Sq \ef
.Pq font face
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